Sentences with phrase «powerful infrared laser»

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.

LIGO detects gravitational waves by splitting a powerful infrared laser beam in two, then sending the beams at right angles through tunnels to mirrors 2.5 miles away.

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Munich based Laser physicists have developed an extremely powerful broadband infrared light source.

Tsen uses a near - infrared laser to excite the target's outer shell and spur vibrations powerful enough to rupture the capsid.

NASA's newest moon orbiter is beaming data to Earth via a powerful laser beam to test an innovative interplanetary communications systems that doesn't rely on radio waves, and a new photo reveals just what a moon laser signal looks like in infrared.