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 ...
The Debrief2d
Most Powerful Ultrashort Electron Beam Ever Created Breaks Previous Power Records by a Factor of Five
The most powerful ultrashort electron beam ever created offers new possibilities for recreating cosmic conditions in ...
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.
Nature2mon
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 ...
Wall Street Journal2y
Iron Beam: How Israel’s New Laser Weapon Works
Israel’s experimental air-defense system known as the Iron Beam uses laser technology to strike down drones and rockets, but military analysts say the device needs U.S. support to improve its ...
Hackaday8y
PHR-803T
The PHR-803T was designed to read HD-DVDs so can focus a beam to far below 0.01 mm. They got autofocus working with the UV laser, but couldn’t use it on the PCB without curing the photoresist.
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Innovative target design leads to surprising discovery in laser-plasma acceleration
More information: M. J. V. Streeter et al, Stable laser-acceleration of high-flux proton beams with plasma collimation, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56248-4 Journal ...
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The drive for holography
With memory-hungry HD file formats being introduced ... in the volume of interference patterns caused by two coherent laser beams intersecting through a volume of light-sensitive photopolymer ...