Lasers

Police are investigating a series of laser strike attacks on pilots last night - and the Civil Aviation Authority says they are still too easy to obtain. Audio

Airline pilots says lasers being pointed at planes on landing confuses, temporarily blinds pilots. They want the offence considered as a serious offence. "We need to deal with the issue and we need to… Audio

Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, and Director of the Photon Factory at the University of Auckland. Her start-up company… Audio

Ultra-fast lasers - or more properly ultra short-pulsed lasers - are very accurate, which makes them useful in industry and research Audio

The Airline Pilot's Association says it will take a tragedy before there are changes to the way the courts deal to people who shine lasers at aeroplanes. Audio

Rogue waves cause damage both at sea and when light is pulsed, so optical fibre research may lead to better lasers and ship design Audio

Sarah Thomson is using a laser to probe the molecules in red pigments used in art to see how they fade due to light Audio

Using optical tweezers, University of Otago physicists are splitting tiny clouds of rubidium atoms and smashing them together Audio

Photonic Innovations is developing a toxic gas detector which uses laser spectroscopy Audio

How laser technology developed here in New Zealand can keep hunters safe. With Michael Scott and Dave Grove of Hunter Safety Lab. Audio

To mark half a century of lasers, find out how a laser works, get a potted history of its development, and discover some uses Audio