Scientists have developed a new type of laser that can deliver high amounts of energy in very short bursts of time, with potential applications in eye and heart surgery or the engineering of delicate materials.
The Director of the University of Sydney Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, Professor Martijn de Sterke, said “This laser has the property that as its pulse duration decreases to less than a trillionth of a second, its energy could go through the roof.”