But reaching orbit will require megawatt lasers; so far, the best commercial
lasers used in experiments have less than one - tenth that power.
Not exact matches
The Waymo driverless
experiment has been underway
in Phoenix since last year,
using Chrysler Pacifica minivans outfitted with Waymo's
laser - radar - based self - driving technology.
And
in the U.S., the National Ignition Facility is
using lasers to ignite hydrogen plasma as it
experiments with inertia confinement, also known as
laser fusion.
The ANU team not only succeeded
in building the
experiment, which seemed nearly impossible when it was proposed
in 1978, but reversed Wheeler's original concept of light beams being bounced by mirrors, and instead
used atoms scattered by
laser light.
This is the target chamber (front) and ultra-high intensity
laser (back)
used in the micro-scale fusion
experiment at Colorado State University.
In their Nature Communications
experiment, the team produced a record number of neutrons per unit of
laser energy — about 500 times better than
experiments that
use conventional flat targets from the same material.
In a new round of
experiments at CERN, Hartmann and a team from Japan and Europe
used a
laser to produce antiprotonic helium.
«Examining Einstein: Precise
experiments using lasers and clocks
in space.»
The methods are far from foolproof, so scientists are
experimenting using lasers to examine changes
in carbon isotopes
in carbon dioxide, which might signal an influx of carbon dioxide from magma either building under or rising through the volcano.
This hardly conceivable resolution allows timing the race of electrons
in experiments that were performed at Bielefeld University
using advanced attosecond time - resolved
laser spectroscopy.
The article «Stand - off detection of alcohol
in car cabins,» by Jarosław Młyńczak, Jan Kubicki, and Krzysztof Kopczyński of the Military University of Technology
in Warsaw, details
experiments using an external
laser device to detect the presence of alcohol vapors inside of a moving car.
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).
Fuchs and other team members
used a new source of X-rays, an X-ray free - electron
laser at the National Accelerator Laboratory
in California, to conduct
experiments.
In another experiment, he measured the frequency of an optical transition in cesium atoms (a change in their state that absorbs or emits light at a precise frequency) using a mode - locked laser to span the difference in frequency between two CW laser
In another
experiment, he measured the frequency of an optical transition
in cesium atoms (a change in their state that absorbs or emits light at a precise frequency) using a mode - locked laser to span the difference in frequency between two CW laser
in cesium atoms (a change
in their state that absorbs or emits light at a precise frequency) using a mode - locked laser to span the difference in frequency between two CW laser
in their state that absorbs or emits light at a precise frequency)
using a mode - locked
laser to span the difference
in frequency between two CW laser
in frequency between two CW
lasers.
Thanks to the particular geometry of the microsphere target
used in these
experiments, the impact of the
laser beam produces a plasma whose properties would be virtually impossible to reproduce by bombarding a foil target.
In their experiments, Chen and his colleagues used microfabrication to vary the size of the aluminum dots, and measured the decay of a pulsed laser reflected from the material — an indirect measure of the heat propagation in the materia
In their
experiments, Chen and his colleagues
used microfabrication to vary the size of the aluminum dots, and measured the decay of a pulsed
laser reflected from the material — an indirect measure of the heat propagation
in the materia
in the material.
The PHELIX
laser in Darmstadt, which was
used in the
experiments, has the necessary specifications.
In the experiment at SLAC, researchers used lasers to create a shock wave in samples of silica glas
In the
experiment at SLAC, researchers
used lasers to create a shock wave
in samples of silica glas
in samples of silica glass.
In that case, the COLTRIMS experiments proved that the position of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr in the «Einstein - Bohr debates» 80 years ago was correct and, shortly before that, other physicists from the atomic physics work group used COLTRIMS to «film» the destruction of a molecule by a strong laser pulse — a reaction so fast that it can not be captured by an ordinary camer
In that case, the COLTRIMS
experiments proved that the position of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr
in the «Einstein - Bohr debates» 80 years ago was correct and, shortly before that, other physicists from the atomic physics work group used COLTRIMS to «film» the destruction of a molecule by a strong laser pulse — a reaction so fast that it can not be captured by an ordinary camer
in the «Einstein - Bohr debates» 80 years ago was correct and, shortly before that, other physicists from the atomic physics work group
used COLTRIMS to «film» the destruction of a molecule by a strong
laser pulse — a reaction so fast that it can not be captured by an ordinary camera.
Examples include handling data from faster detectors, like the Pilatus, handling new technologies, such as the X-ray free electron
laser (XFEL), and handling new types of
experiments, such as putting multiple crystals
in the beamline at the same time, or running
experiments using two different wavelengths at the same time.
In a new
experiment, researchers
used a
laser to decouple a molecule of carbon dioxide, or CO2.
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 proton
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 pro
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 pro
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 proton
in model development — by heating a dual - layer target of gold and aluminum with
laser - generated pro
laser - generated protons.
In 2002, she joined the NIF and Photon Science Directorate where she began
using ultra-intense
lasers to generate bright high - energy X-ray sources and developed techniques to probe matter at extreme density and temperature on high - power,
laser - driven
experiments.
Berkeley Lab was home to a pioneering
experiment)
in 2004 that showed
laser plasma acceleration can produce relatively narrow energy spread beams - reported
in the so - called «Dream Beam» issue of the journal Nature - and
in 2006
used a similar
laser - driven acceleration technique to accelerate electrons to a then - record energy of 1 billion electron volts, or GeV.
Berkeley Lab was home to a pioneering
experiment in 2004 that showed
laser plasma acceleration can produce relatively narrow energy spread beams — reported
in the so - called «Dream Beam» issue of the journal Nature — and
in 2006
used a similar
laser - driven acceleration technique to accelerate electrons to a then - record energy of 1 billion electron volts, or GeV.
The results indicate that the direct - drive approach
used by LLE, home to the most prolific
laser in the world (
in terms of number of
experiments, publications, and diversity of users) is a promising path to fusion and a viable alternative over other methods, including that
used at NIF.
The unique electron gun that Filippetto and his team are
using is a part of Berkeley Lab's APEX (Advanced Photo - injector
EXperiment), which has served as a prototype system for LCLS - II, a next - generation X-ray
laser project underway at SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory
in Menlo Park, Calif..
In two related experiments, researchers used powerful lasers to recreate a tiny laboratory version of what happens at the beginning of solar flares and stellar explosions, creating something like a gigantic plasma tsunami in spac
In two related
experiments, researchers
used powerful
lasers to recreate a tiny laboratory version of what happens at the beginning of solar flares and stellar explosions, creating something like a gigantic plasma tsunami
in spac
in space.
In addition, integrated
experiments where some of OMEGA's
lasers are
used to actually compress the liner itself, as well as the heated and magnetized fusion fuel it contains, are also part of the ARPA - E program.
Experiments using the OMEGA
laser at the University's Laboratory of Laser Energetics (LLE) have created the conditions capable of producing a fusion yield that's five times higher than the current record laser - fusion energy yield, as long as the relative conditions produced at LLE are reproduced and scaled up at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Califo
laser at the University's Laboratory of
Laser Energetics (LLE) have created the conditions capable of producing a fusion yield that's five times higher than the current record laser - fusion energy yield, as long as the relative conditions produced at LLE are reproduced and scaled up at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Califo
Laser Energetics (LLE) have created the conditions capable of producing a fusion yield that's five times higher than the current record
laser - fusion energy yield, as long as the relative conditions produced at LLE are reproduced and scaled up at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Califo
laser - fusion energy yield, as long as the relative conditions produced at LLE are reproduced and scaled up at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
in California.
In this post, the blogger from How About Orange
experimented using laser prints, heat transfer foil paper and an iron / printer.
MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. — An
experiment in light waves
using lasers.
The
use of metals obliged Wesselmann to
experiment with various techniques: those
in aluminum were cut by hand, and those
in steel were shaped by
laser, though not without some difficulty.