Researchers create world's brightest X-ray source with high-power laser beam and novel metal foams
By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore ...
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Frothy silver foam and fusion-grade lasers create world's brightest X-ray
A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...
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Laser technique measures vast distances with nanometre precision
A new way to gauge distance using lasers can measure lengths of more than 100 kilometres to within a thousandth of the width of a human hair, and could be used to make better space telescopes.
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High power laser beam focusing
Using proprietary production techniques, and benefiting from an ultra-stable production facility, Optical Surfaces Ltd has ...
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Thermal self-actions of laser beams
Abstract: Theoretical and experimental studies of thermal self-defocusing and self-focusing CW laser beams in liquids and solids are given. An analytical theory of thermal self-actions, including ...