Sentences with phrase «of powerful lasers»

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!

The subsequent development of powerful lasers, however, suggested another way to transmit signals between the stars.

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.

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.

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.

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.