Femtosecond laser pulses, with durations on the order of 10⁻¹⁵ seconds, have transformed the landscape of ultrafast optics by enabling the exploration of rapid light–matter interactions. The dynamics ...

LS-CUP for time-resolved 2D imaging of laser-induced flame signals. (a) Photograph of the studied flame. The regions of investigation at heights h1 and h2 are labeled. (b) Illustrations of four ...

When researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research performed the first ultrafast x-ray crystallographic experiments on myoglobin in 2015, they didn’t realize they had done the wrong ...

Ultrafast laser-material interactions are pivotal for advanced manufacturing, yet existing techniques often fail to capture comprehensive structural and optical changes simultaneously. In a new paper ...

Solitons are quasiparticles that propagate along a non-dissipative wave. Put another way, they are waveforms that hold their shape as they move—like a single wave moving across the surface of a pond.