By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

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 ...

"Your dentist's X-ray machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy metal plate; the electrons in the beam ...

The plasma and beams group conducts research at the crossroads of plasma physics, particle beam physics, and laser physics. Our goal is to study particle beam acceleration in strong plasma waves that ...

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operates a laser with an open beam path at its DLR Institute of Technical Physics in Lampoldshausen. Researchers at this ...

A paper by the Chairman of Tau Zero's board, Jeffrey Greason, and Gerrit Bruhaug, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who specializes in laser physics, takes a look at the physics of one ...

A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...

Credit: WLADIMIR BULGAR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Laser beams powered by the sun are one small step closer to becoming a reality after researchers received funding to develop the ...