Lasers & Optics

Capturing a single photon from a pulse of light:

Tapping Particles of Light

24.11.2015

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Chemistry, Nanoscience, Quantum Computing

Weizmann Institute scientists single out individual photons

A unique method of shaping the ultrashort pulses enables them to act as “many beams in one”

The One-Beam Solution

01.09.2015

Lasers & Optics

Giving shape to an ultrafast laser pulse enables new optical methods

Thin transparent plates give this sea sapphire its iridescent color

A Marine Creature’s Magic Trick Explained

01.09.2015

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Biochemistry, Materials Science, Structural Biology

Crystral structures on the sea sapphire's back appear differently depending on the angle of reflection

The first electron microscope (Saul, RCA – EMU - 2A). (l-r) John Fany, Prof. David Danon and Dr. Yehuda Marikovsky, 1956

Someone to Operate It and a Place to Put It

03.08.2014

Lasers & Optics, Particle Physics, Life Sciences, Technology & Applications

The story of the first electron microscope at the Institute

Dr. Yaniv Ziv

Remembering in Time

21.07.2014

Lasers & Optics, Brain & Behavior

Dr. Yaniv Ziv want to know how our brain keeps memories of individual events in order

William Levine (center), a prominent American diamond merchant, inspecting gemprints during his visit to the Weizmann Institute in 1974, with Prof. Shmuel Shtrikman (left) and Dr. Charles Bar-Isaac (right)

The Fingerprint of a Diamond

19.05.2014

Lasers & Optics, Technology & Applications

Dr. Charles Bar-Isaac turned his fascination with diamonds’ brilliance into a method of identifying individual stones

Power Merger

Power Merger

08.10.2013

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Brain & Behavior, Energy, Nanoscience, Materials Science

Nanocrystals that absorb low-energy photons and emit higher-energy ones could increase solar cell efficiency

(l-r) Yoav Lahini, Mor Verbin, Yaacov Kraus, Oded Zilberberg and Zohar Ringel

Materials on the Edge

11.12.2012

Lasers & Optics, Particle Physics

What happens when five physics students from four different labs put their heads together?

spinning illustration

Spin Doctors

13.09.2012

Space & Physics, Lasers & Optics, Chemistry

Spinning molecular gas vortices might have a number of practical applications

(l-r) Ori Katz, Eran Small and Prof. Yaron Silberberg. Under the skin

Fast Focus

06.09.2011

Space & Physics, Lasers & Optics

A new method of adjusting laser beams may enable them to focus on a point under the skin

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