Science news articles about 'laser beams'

  • Rochester's Omega Laser Goes Petawatt - Another Step Toward Sustainable Fusion

    ... the new Omega EP (Extended Performance) laser facility at the Robert L. Sproull Center for ... a new set of four ultra-high-intensity laser beams that will unleash more than a petawatt—a million billion ...
  • Chaotic Lasers Tamed

    ... , lecturers point to their slides with laser pointers and surgeons carry out medical operations with laser beams. Nevertheless there are numerous unusual kinds of laser light that are still largely ...
  • Laser Pachinko Game Freezes Atomic Waves [News]

    ... of metal balls and specially prepared light instead of a pachinko board.Researchers are pros at using laser beams to forcefully stop atoms in their tracks. But the effect demonstrated in the new ...
  • Laser light as coolant for semiconductors

    When lasers illuminate material it usually warms up. Therefore laser beams are, for example, used for cutting sheet steel, for welding or even as scalpels. But this effect can also be reversed...
  • Lasers Reversed - Using Light To Cool Semiconductors

    ... cutting sheet steel, for welding or even as scalpels. But this effect can also be reversed. When the frequency of the laser beam makes the irradiated material just not absorbing its light and slightly ...
  • Lasers damage audience's eyes

    MOSCOW, July 15 (UPI) -- Concertgoers at a music festival in Russia may have suffered permanent damage to their eyes because of laser beams, doctors said.
  • Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers

    ... just a few degrees in the vertical direction. The laser maintained a high output optical power ... communications. A very narrow angular spread of the laser beam can greatly reduce the complexity and cost ...
  • Life under the laser

    ... time, live as it happens. The cutting edge laser technology has helped to attract £1.3 ... drug molecules can be detected as they glow under the laser beam of a highly sensitive microscope. This allows ...
  • Sensitive laser instrument could aid search for life on Mars

    ... method is based on a technique called laser desorption mass spectroscopy. By focusing a laser beam on a spot less than one-hundredth the width of a pencil point, the researchers can knock microscopic ...
  • Pilots worried about 'stupid hobby' of shining laser lights at planes

    Transport Canada statistics regarding the number of reported incidents of lasers beam being pointed into the cockpits of airplanes have some Canadian pilots concerned the dangerous activity is ...
  • Bit of bling adds new dimension to laser beam technology

    ... an expensive ornament, diamonds are now of a sufficient size and quality to attract the eye of a team of physicists at Macquarie University, who are using them to develop a new more powerful laser.
  • Princeton researchers discover new type of laser

    ... light to shine in an intense, narrow beam of a single, very pure color. One way to produce a ... built unexpectedly emitted a second laser beam of slightly smaller wavelength than the main one. Further ...
  • Destroying amyloid proteins with lasers

    ... an amyloid specific dye called thioflavin T (ThT) to the tangles and then hit it with a laser beam to induce fluorescence. Surprisingly, they found that under the right conditions, the laser could ...
  • Feature: Near field laser 'tweezers' reveal new vista for medical diagnosis

    Laser beams can be used to push very small objects around, such as red blood cells. A new technique using only one beam could work on even smaller objects.
  • Beaming new light on life

    ... more efficient, catalyze chemical reactions and generate tiny laser beams that would serve as light sources on optical computer chips. But first, researchers want to know more ...

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