But in an experiment, as detailed in a new paper published in the journal Optica, Brookhaven National Laboratory researcher ...

After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, ...

This could enable new tech for controlling light with light, opening doors to advanced fabrication, imaging, and illumination ...

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain ...

Brookhaven researchers have revealed that a laser beam can cast a shadow through nonlinear optical processes, challenging ...

But producing a small spot size with blue light has been tricky, says Hiroshi Ohno, who manages the laser development team to which Hagino belongs. A high brightness laser beam requires both high ...

With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of light cast a shadow when illuminated by the ...

Researchers showed that a laser beam can sometimes act like a solid object and cast a shadow that is visible to the naked eye. In the picture, the shadow appears as the horizontal line traversing the ...

The technique works because the green laser (wavelength 532 nanometers) changes the way the crystal responds to some other ...

"From there, we decided to conduct an experiment to demonstrate the shadow of a laser beam." To do this, the researchers directed a high-power green laser through a cube made of standard ruby crystal ...