Sentences with phrase «focused beam of radiation»

DARPA is looking at more efficient technologies, like fiber lasers and liquid lasers, which could lead to smaller, more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a Free Electron Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed electrons to generate an extremely powerful focused beam of radiation.

This knifeless surgery uses highly focused beams of radiation to ablate tumors.

Not exact matches

And if this beam is also focused into a speck with a three millimeter diameter, then we get an intensity of light an order higher than the intensity of light close to the sun's surface, which has a radiation power of about 20 gigawatts a square meter.

Focusing the machine's full output into a spot of only 100 nanometers in size, the team generated an X-ray beam with intensity equivalent to all of the sun's radiation that is striking Earth's surface but concentrated in an area with the diameter of a human hair.

The neutron star's magnetic field lines converge at the magnetic poles, so the charges get focussed and a narrow cone of non-thermal radiation is beamed outward.

In order to focus the entire heat radiation from the wall onto the target, all of the radiation from the wall would need to be focused in parallel beams first, before it hits the lens.

In the Itrax WoodScanner system, the sample laths are scanned in increment steps using a focused high - energy X-ray beam and an X-ray line camera that detects the amount of radiation that passes through the sample.

First, doctors are transitioning from the old - fashioned way of administering radiation therapy — an unfocused beam of weak radiation — to the newer method of focused, high - energy radiation administered by linear accelerators.