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A startup is developing a 100-gigawatt laser to propel a probe to another star system. That may be powerful enough to 'ignite an entire city.'
An initiative called Breakthrough Starshot wants to explore another star system using ultra-powerful laser beams and wafer-thin spaceships. It's a goal that sounds so fantastic, you'd be forgiven ...
Nature1mon
Laser-beam profilers
Knowledge of a laser beam's shape and output-power distribution is critical for optimizing laser performance. Neil Savage summarizes the latest beam-profiling products on the market. People using ...
Hackaday2y
Defeating A Cryptoprocessor With Laser Beams
Lacking a vault door to drill, they used a powerful laser, delidding the IC and pulsing different areas of it with the beam. How do you know when exactly to pulse? For that, they took power ...
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Israel's Iron Beam set for deployment this year
Israel's Iron Beam laser air defense system is set to become operational in the second half of 2025, and now the "National ...
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Accelerating Electrons To TeV Levels Using Curved Laser Beams
In this area researchers have now demonstrated a way around this, by using curved channels for the laser beams (paywalled paper) which inject the laser beam into the continuous cavity. Schematic ...
Nature2mon
Principles and applications of compact laser–plasma accelerators
Spectacular increase in brightness and decrease in pulse duration of X-ray beams are now foreseen owing to the progress made in laser–plasma interactions. At the frontier between plasmas and ...