At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, scattered pattern as the light ricochets through many paths at once.

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. Optical scientists have found a new way to significantly increase the power ...

Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if ...

Spatiotemporal mode-locking (STML) has been a hot topic since 2017 (Science 358, 94–97 (2017)). However, comprehension and control of spatiotemporal dissipative solitons (STDSs) and STML in multi-mode ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a ...

Diode pumping of a dual-clad fiber laser can be from the end or the side, but light must enter at an angle close to the axis of the fiber so the pump light (blue) can be guided within the outer core.

After a surprising discovery that overcomes a longstanding problem in fiber optics, MIT researchers demonstrated a biomedical ...

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. A narrowband laser beam shaped by a spatial light modulator excites many ...