An Unimaginable New Laser Has the Energy of 1 Million Nuclear Plants
Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...
Record-setting electron beam: Five times more powerful than predecessors
Scientists have created an ultrashort electron beam with five times more peak current than any other similar beam on Earth.
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We are not alone in the galaxy – NASA receives message via laser beam from 10 million miles away
One day, we might want the World Wide Web to stretch across the galaxy, and NASA just took a major step in that direction —successfully beaming a laser ...
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Why the American military is so hot on laser weapons
But at their core, lasers are just concentrated beams of light ... truck's gas tank on fire, and even burn holes in people. Pointed at an artillery shell in flight, a laser can heat the shell ...
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Laser-beam profilers
Knowledge of a laser beam's shape and output-power distribution is critical for optimizing laser performance. Neil Savage summarizes the latest beam-profiling products on the market. People using ...