Coherently tiled titanium:sapphire laser amplification provides a relatively easy and inexpensive way to surpass the current 10-petawatt limit. “By adding a 2×2 coherently tiled titanium:sapphire high ...

Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup. Credit: Shuangxi Peng, Zhihao Wang, Feilong Hu, Zhengyan Li, Qingbin Zhang, Peixiang Lu Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup.

Engineers at the first of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) locations under construction in eastern Europe have installed a laser amplifier head that will provide scientists with ten ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freedom Photonics, a leader in photonic components, modules and subsystems, announced its aura TM single mode diode laser amplifier achieved a new performance ...

High-power ultrafast laser with an operation wavelength extending to the 2.0 μm range has been attracting increasing research interest, mostly driven by its applications in various fields such as ...

Ultra-intense ultrashort lasers have a wide-ranging scope of applications, encompassing basic physics, national security, industrial service, and health care. In basic physics, such lasers have become ...

Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) has become a common technique for damage-free amplification of short optical pulses to terawatt levels and beyond. Typical high-repetition-rate Ti:sapphire chirped ...

Photons in relatively weak beams of light could be made to interact with each other by shining them through a piece of silicon with a specific set of voids cut through it. That is the conclusion of ...

A joint project led by Focused Energy, based in Darmstadt, Germany is developing what it calls “the world’s first laser-driven neutron source for industrial use”. The LDRS process (Laser-Driven ...

The generation of extremely short laser pulses with the maximum possible pulse energy is an important goal in the research and development of ultrafast lasers. The fast-moving frontier of ever shorter ...

March 23, 2009 Star Wars-style laser weapons have taken another step closer to reality with Northrop Grumman reporting that it has produced a 105 kilowatt (kW) light ray from an electric laser in the ...

Thought that title might get your attention, but shooting lightning bolts down laser beams is just what a device being developed at the Picatinny Arsenal military research facility in New Jersey is ...