Improving the speed and safety of airport security screening

Lincoln Laboratory seeks ways to build non-contact screening methods that can detect concealed explosives at airports.

Anne McGovern | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
Feb. 16, 2023 ~7 min

Researchers develop a high-power, portable terahertz laser

The instrument could bring powerful sensing and imaging capabilities out of the lab and into hospitals, airports, or other settings.

Michaela Jarvis | MIT News correspondent • mit
Nov. 2, 2020 ~7 min


Using light to generate order in an exotic material

Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses produces a previously unseen phase of matter.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 11, 2019 ~6 min

Professor Emeritus Ali Javan, inventor of the first gas laser, dies at 89 | MIT News

Longtime MIT professor was a trailblazer in the fields of laser technology and quantum electronics.

Chuck Leddy | Department of Physics • mit
Sept. 29, 2016 ~10 min

New mid-infrared laser system could detect atmospheric chemicals | MIT News

Laser pulses produce glowing plasma filaments in open air, could enable long-distance monitoring.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
June 28, 2016 ~6 min

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