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Técnico Professor Co-Develops Innovative Soliton Laser Technology

Published on Jan. 25, 2024, 11:25 a.m.

Imagine a beam of light that keeps its shape as it travels, like a solitary wave on water. Scientists from an international group, involving TU Wien, Harvard, Técnico Lisboa and Italian research institutes, have miniaturized soliton lasers into tiny chip-scale rings, with the potential to transform areas from environmental sensing …

14 Physics Department researchers in the top 2% of the world's most cited scientists in 2022

Published on Oct. 26, 2023, 3:44 p.m.

Stanford University and the Elsevier publishing group have published an updated annual list of the 200,000 most cited scientists worldwide in 2022, representing the Top 2%. This list includes 14 researchers who in 2022 were active in the various research units linked to DF:CENTRA: Javier Rubio; José Sande Lemos; Masato …

A quasi-particle accelerator in plasmas to miniaturize coherent light sources

Published on Oct. 19, 2023, 12:13 p.m.

An international team of researchers led by Bernardo Malaca (PhD student in the Lasers and Plasmas Group, Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion), under the guidance of Jorge Vieira (professor in the Physics Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico), has determined how collective movements can radiate as single particles. The …