Sentences with phrase «powerful lasers at»

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.

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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.

It would take advantage of beamlines at OMEGA - EP, one of the country's most powerful lasers.

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.

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 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.

The researchers therefore used what is currently the most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For their pilot study, the scientists analysed diamond samples with the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S..

In a recent test at the White Sands Missile Range, a specially equipped C - 130 plane fried a parked truck with a powerful laser.

An atom, molecule or Bacterium placed at the focal point of the world's most powerful x-ray laser doesn't stand a chance.

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.

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.

This could potentially create a sound wave 50 times longer and allow the lasers used to be 100 times less powerful — and less energy intensive — thereby delivering more data more quickly at a lower cost.

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.

The dynamics of these microcrystals were captured in exquisite detail when the world's most powerful X-ray laser at SLAC was trained on them.

Now, using a powerful laser scanning microscope, George Brooks, an exercise metabolism expert at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues demonstrate that lactic acid is present in rat muscle cells regardless of oxygen content.

Scientists at NIF are seeking to produce fusion by imploding hydrogen fuel capsules with the world's most powerful laser beams in a process called inertial confinement.

In this method, a very powerful laser beam strikes dye molecules at half the energy (twice the wavelength) needed to excite them.

Working at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's most powerful x-ray laser, the researchers were able to take detailed «snapshots» of the four photon - step cycle for water oxidation in photosystem II, a large protein complex in green plants.

Jacques - Philippe Colletier and colleagues used a recently developed technique called serial - femtosecond crystallography at an X-ray free - electron laser source (a powerful laser source) to solve the structure of BinAB.

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 space.

Physicist Gilbert «Rip» Collins of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab will tell us about recent use of the world's most powerful lasers to recreate conditions at the cores of giant planets.

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Meanwhile, Asus has officially started to build buzz around the ZenFone 4 lineup on social media, with teaser images unsubtly hinting at dual camera arrangements, powerful zoom and enhanced laser autofocus capabilities.