For its E3 demo, Respawn was only showing off two: Ion has a bunch
of powerful laser attacks as well as a fully automatic Splitter Rifle that fires deadly energy bolts in quick succession; Scorch is, as its name may suggest, an incendiary specialist, wielding the monstrous T - 203 Thermite Launcher, which turns areas of the map into flaming hell zones.
Laser - powered fusion, sometimes called inertial confinement fusion, is produced by focusing an array
of powerful laser beams on a small pellet of hydrogen fuel.
LIGO's detectors in Hanford, Wash., and Livingston, La., newly reactivated after five years of upgrades, each consist
of a powerful laser that splits into two perpendicular, 4 - kilometer - long beams.
The subsequent development
of powerful lasers, however, suggested another way to transmit signals between the stars.
Use materials crafted and salvaged on the surface to outfit and upgrade space fighters with a selection
of powerful lasers, plasma cannons, shields and more to become the terror of the nebula!
Not exact matches
The inertial confinement experts, such as those at NIF, are attempting to ignite a fusion reaction by firing
powerful lasers at plasma contained in a pellet the size
of a pea.
The scientific refuse were capacitors from one
of the most
powerful lasers of the 1980s and 1990s, the Nova.
This project is attempting to ignite a fusion reaction with the help
of the world's most
powerful laser.
It's how it makes better and better predictions which lead to MRI machines and
powerful lasers and and the incredible electronics
of your computer.
It would take advantage
of beamlines at OMEGA - EP, one
of the country's most
powerful lasers.
But Jeffrey Sheehy, chief engineer
of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., and Johnson agree that the technology could potentially pave the way for interstellar missions, in which
powerful lasers could accelerate sail spacecraft to a tenth the speed
of light or faster.
At the TU Vienna, an extraordinarily
powerful new method to influence the shape
of the
laser light wave has been developed in cooperation with the Imperial College in London and the Max - Born - Institute in Berlin.
Now, Alexander Fedotov
of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in Russia and his colleagues have calculated that more
powerful lasers set to be built in the next decade could create millions
of pairs in a chain reaction.
To generate an accurate picture
of the temperature profile within the Earth's centre, scientists can look at the melting point
of iron at different pressures in the laboratory, using a diamond anvil cell to compress speck - sized samples to pressures
of several million atmospheres, and
powerful laser beams to heat them to 4000 or even 5000 degrees Celsius.
«The trick is to use the world's most
powerful X-ray
laser, named LCLS, located at the Department
of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,» said Fromme in a statement.
The electrons can also be torn away, overcoming the confining force
of their nucleus, using the
powerful electric field
of a
laser.
It's the stuff
of science fiction: robots that can hunt down and kill humans,
powerful lasers that can destroy targets without leaving a trace, and a weapon that can supposedly knock you down without even touching you — all
of these, and more, came one step closer to reality in 2008.
This type
of manipulation requires a
powerful light source such as an ultrafast
laser and would last for only a femtosecond, or one quadrillionth
of a second.
An international team
of researchers has used the world's most
powerful X-ray
laser to take snapshots
of free molecules.
The
laser in a tiny but
powerful microscope is giving neuroscientists their best look yet at how the brains
of rats work as they scurry about their daily activities.
Using a compact but
powerful laser to heat arrays
of ordered nanowires, CSU scientists and collaborators have demonstrated micro-scale nuclear fusion in the lab.
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.
The surprisingly simple device is operated from a shed in a field near Chicago, and consists
of two
powerful laser beams that are directed through tubes 40 metres long.
An atom, molecule or speck
of dust placed at the focus
of the world's most
powerful x-ray
laser doesn't stand a chance.
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.
The world's most
powerful x-ray
laser, known as the Linac Coherent Light Source, sits at the end
of a linear particle accelerator and converts the particle beam into an x-ray beam.
Arefiev and colleagues want to fire up the Texas Petawatt
Laser, one
of the most
powerful lasers in the world.
They're working with some
of the world's most
powerful laser light, amplified to a petawatt — a billion million watts.
The VLT system comprises a
powerful orange
laser that sits inside a special clean - room next to the telescope and an optical fibre that sends the
laser light to a small «launch» telescope at the top
of Yepun.
Many major observatories already have — or are developing — systems that use
powerful lasers to project pinpoints
of light high in the atmosphere.
With an output
of 50 watts — 1000 times more
powerful than a typical handheld unit — the
laser is tuned to sodium atoms» strong yellow emission at 589 nanometres.
When exposed to pulsed
laser light, the gold evaporated, producing a
powerful shock wave in the colloid comparable to that caused, say, by the impact
of a micrometeorite.
To move on to other atoms and molecules will require more
powerful lasers with shorter pulses,
of the type used in coherent control chemistry, so the future
of this method is very promising.»
Scientists
of all stripes yearn for the incredibly
powerful beacon
of an X-ray
laser.
The countdown reaches zero, the world's most
powerful laser fires silently for a fraction
of a second at a fuel target, and results pour in.
The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a
powerful infrared
laser that hit the narrow edge
of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths
of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level
of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.
So far, scientists have used
powerful laser beams to attain an acceleration
of 200 billion electron volts per meter, a new record.
An atom, molecule or Bacterium placed at the focal point
of the world's most
powerful x-ray
laser doesn't stand a chance.
«With its unique combination
of powerful positron beams and high - power
lasers, FACET is the only place in the world where we can do this type
of research,» Hogan says.
Those technologies include the «driver» used to crush the fuel capsule, such as
lasers, heavy ion beams, or
powerful pulses
of electric current.
Super
Powerful X-Ray
Laser Boils Atoms in Molecules and Explodes Living Cells — All in the Name
of Science
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.
In 5 years, at a cost
of $ 163 million, Boeing hopes to get the physics right and demonstrate an extremely
powerful — and hopefully seaworthy — giant
laser.
«One important possible application
of this work is in creating a more
powerful laser system than existing technologies allow,» Soljači?
His device relies on extremely short,
powerful bursts
of laser beams.
In the heart
of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a technician inspects the optics assembly where 192
powerful laser beams will zap a pellet filled with deuterium and tritium, two heavy forms
of hydrogen.
Engineers can again prepare to light up the world's most
powerful laser facility, the National Ignition Facility at the Department
of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Next door, the Institute
of Spectroscopy pioneered the development
of X-ray
lasers, whose short wavelength promised
powerful analytical tools and, later, devastating weapons.
The result brings the tiny flakes, called nanocrystals, a crucial step closer to fulfilling their promise
of tailoring a
laser's color just by changing the size
of the crystal, which could lead to more
powerful tools for detecting chemicals or sending information via flickers
of light.
In their experiments, the group fired a
powerful laser pulse at a micrometer - sized plastic sphere, blasting a bunch
of protons from the target and accelerating them to velocities approaching the speed
of light.