Sentences with phrase «first use of a laser»

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First experiments probing the collision of parallel magnetic fields using laser - produced plasmas

Armored personnel carriers had to be used to protect representatives of Malaysia's national soccer team before a game in Jakarta after the team's fans were accused of using laser pens to distract the opposing Indonesian team during the first leg of the AFF Suzuki Cup home - and - home series.

In the spacecraft's first record - breaking accomplishment, reported June 16 in Science, the satellite used onboard lasers to beam down pairs of entangled particles, which have eerily linked properties, to two cities in China, where the particles were captured by telescopes (SN: 8/5/17, p. 14).

The researchers report using a system of finely tuned lasers to first trap and then tweak the interactions of 51 individual atoms, or quantum bits.

This novel, less invasive way of detecting disease using light salient properties was employed for the first time in 1991 to identify a fingerprint for cancer in tissue by a team led by Robert Alfano, a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York, and director of The Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the City University of New York at City College.

Using lasers to clear leaves was first proposed in 1999 by a UK company called LaserThor, which developed a laser with a temperature of 5000 °C that was strong enough to zap leaves 25,000 times per second.

Using the huge laser power of the US National Ignition Facility, a team led by Brian MacGowan of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have managed to squeeze fuel into spheres for the first time.

For the first time a powerful laser has been used to further our understanding of some of the most mysterious celestial objects just beyond the solar system — brown dwarfs.

To trap individual neutral atoms, the researchers first used a laser to cool a cloud of rubidium atoms to ultracold, near - absolute - zero temperatures, slowing the atoms down from their usual, high - speed trajectories.

They were able to do this using one of the world's most powerful lasers, STFC's Vulcan Petawatt that is based at their Oxfordshire laser laboratory, to create the first test of resistivity and viscosity found in brown dwarfs.

Researchers from the University of Southampton have demonstrated for the first time a new laser cooling method, based upon the interference of matter waves, that could be used to cool molecules.

Optical physicists have been using spiraling laser beams, in which light waves are twisted into vortices, for almost 30 years, says Jo Verbeeck, a materials scientist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and first author on the Nature paper.

As part of this initiative, the CAMERA team combined efforts with Ruslan Kurta, a physicist at the European XFEL (X-ray free electron laser) facility in Germany, to analyze angular correlations from the experimental data and use CAMERA's multi-tiered iterative phasing (M - TIP) algorithm to perform the first successful 3D virus reconstructions from experimental correlations.

«This is the first time a dual comb has been generated on a single chip using a single laser,» says Lipson, Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering.

The first paper describes an experiment in which and his colleagues from Nagoya University and The University of Electro - Communications in Tokyo used few - cycle laser pulses of different wavelengths to irradiate molecules of nitric oxide (NO).

A recent study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully used this technique at an X-ray free - electron laser for the first time with the element selenium as a marker.

«This laser is just one use of our hollow - core fiber,» said Muhammad Rosdi Abu Hassan, a doctoral student and first author of the paper.

In 1968 Vladilen S. Letokhov first proposed that atoms could be trapped in a light beam using the dipole force, and 10 years later Arthur Ashkin of AT&T Bell Laboratories suggested a more practical trap based on focused laser beams.

Then, in late 2003, National Institutes of Standards and Technology physicist Deborah Jin's team used lasers and magnetic fields to steady and chill potassium atoms until they formed the first ever so - called fermionic condensate.

To see dynamical tunneling in action, two teams — one based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, the other at the University of Texas, Austin — first used a complicated series of laser beams and magnetic fields to cool atoms of cesium or sodium to a temperature of a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

And on the subject of tech - nological overkill, avoid using the laser pointer at all costs: in a small seminar room it becomes a weapon of doom, making the first three rows of the audience immediate candidates for corneal replacement.

Using 50 million laser readings from a NASA satellite, scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges.

To create a more precise atomic clock, Ludlow's team first used green and blue lasers to cool bundles of ytterbium atoms to 10 millikelvin, or within 10 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.

He led the team which conceived the first application of X-ray free - electron lasers (XFEL) to structural biology using protein nanocrystals and he pioneered femtosecond serial crystallography.

In an experiment using the Titan laser at the Lab's Jupiter Laser Facility, LLNL researchers and collaborators achieved the first measurements of thermal conductivity of warm dense aluminum — a prototype material commonly used in model development — by heating a dual - layer target of gold and aluminum with laser - generated prolaser at the Lab's Jupiter Laser Facility, LLNL researchers and collaborators achieved the first measurements of thermal conductivity of warm dense aluminum — a prototype material commonly used in model development — by heating a dual - layer target of gold and aluminum with laser - generated proLaser Facility, LLNL researchers and collaborators achieved the first measurements of thermal conductivity of warm dense aluminum — a prototype material commonly used in model development — by heating a dual - layer target of gold and aluminum with laser - generated prolaser - generated protons.

Dublin Institute of Technology, Electrical and Controls Engineering and Gaskatel, Kassel, Germany - Fuel Cells University of Applied Science - Germany, Fuel Cells and Nanocomposit Materials Trinity College - Dublin Physics - Nanotubes and Polymer Modified Carbon Nanotubes materials and Spectroscopic Characterization of Liganded Rare Earth Compounds (Chemistry) Our work has resulted inthe start up of two companies: Photonic Cleaning Technologies, LLC, Platteville, WI, USA - Manufacturer of First Contact Polymer, Sales in 62 Countries Xolve, Inc., Platteville, WI, USA Hamilton Group Past and Present Research and Development Projects: Design, Characterization and Synthesis of Chromone Laser Dyes Surface And Optical Characterization of Polymer Strip Coatings for Optics and Astronomy Double Resonance IR / VIS Fluorescence Detection using the National Free Electron Laser Facility in Newport News, Virginia

Because vision loss is one of the first symptoms of NCL, and it is accompanied by lipofuscin accumulation in the retina, the researchers first evaluated lipofuscion in the retina using confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy.

Scientists first began widely using laser frequency combs as precision rulers in the late 1990s in fields like metrology and spectroscopy; for their work, the technology's developers (John L. Hall of JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Theodor Hänsch of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilians University Munich) were awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005.

It also boasts a pair of pre-crash systems called «Smart City Brake Support,» which uses a windshield - mounted laser and automatically brakes at speeds below 20 mph if it believes a collision is impending, and «Smart Brake Support,» which uses the same millimeter - wave radar as the active cruise control and intervenes at speeds up to 90 mph, first by alerting the driver, then by applying the brakes.

In keeping with the energy efficient idea, the SUV uses Audi's first example of OLED (organic LED) lighting and Matrix laser technology in both its headlights and taillights.

The first is the Infared Vetrolaser, a three - diode cold laser that is used to treat pain, wounds, tendons, muscle injuries and fungal infections of the hoof.

Laser therapy was first used on human patients and now it is gradually being adapted as a valuable component of veterinary technology.

Focused on using the finest, most state - of - the - art technology to improve outcomes, we take pride in being the first veterinary hospital in all of New Castle County to use a carbon dioxide laser.

As the first veterinary hospital in New Castle County to use laser surgery, we are proud to know we are on the cutting edge of animal health.

Determined to use the finest, most state - of - the - art technology to improve outcomes, we take pride in being the first veterinary hospital in all of New Castle County to implement the use of a carbon dioxide laser.

Dedicated to use the most current and innovative technologies to drive leading results, we are proud to be New Castle County's first veterinary hospital to pioneer the use of a carbon dioxide laser.

As the first veterinary hospital in New Castle County to use laser surgery, we take pride in knowing we are on the cutting edge of animal health.

Two things of major note; the first is that we now have a therapy laser which we will start using shortly.

The merging of two worlds: the first Bridge Constructor ™ with an official Portal ™ license Create complex constructions in the Aperture Science labs Let GLaDOS accompany you through tricky physics adventures Use portals, aerial faith plates, propulsion gel, repulsion gel, and much more to master the complicated tasks Evade dangers such as sentry turrets, emancipation grills, laser fields, and acid

It was awkward at first to use the gyro sensor of the gamepad to aim the Arwing's lasers while simultaneously controlling the position and altitude of the ship.

When you first begin a game of Disney Infinity 2.0, you'll find that your character has some basic — but good — skills to his or her credit, like Iron Man and his ground combos, or Black Widow's penchant for using twin laser blasters.

Wesselmann researched and launched the first artistic use of laser - cut metal.

Abarbanel first designs the blossoms on a computer, each piece and layer precisely cut out of wood using a laser.

His use of laser - cut aluminum for the first time allows for dynamic new shapes and the insertion of videos, which have been pinched and pulled via computer manipulation to fit within the splatter forms.

By integrating satellite mapping, airborne - laser technology, and ground - based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), have revealed the first high - resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land - use practices.

One of the first things you notice when you begin using the QPAD 5K LE professional gaming laser mouse is its size.

• Led over 250 soldiers during infantry training, on the use of communication and laser targeting system; resulting in a 100 % first time pass rating.