Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful ...

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 ...

The term 'laser' stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." Lasers are made of a source of energy, ...

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 ...

Imagine being able to flip a material from transparent to opaque, or reshape its properties in less than a billionth of a ...

As outlined in the Accelerator and Beam Physics Roadmap published in 2022 ... into a length less than one micrometer using a laser-based shaping technique originally developed for X-ray free ...

Physicists at the University of Ottawa add an orbital spin to their laser beams to control the movement of electrons in their ...

The power balance As outlined in the Accelerator and Beam Physics Roadmappublished in 2022 ... into a length less than one micrometer using a laser-based shaping technique originally developed ...

Physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory just created a petawatt laser beam with the highest peak power and current ever. This beam was formed from a bunch of electrons that were ...

A research team led by Colorado State University has achieved a new milestone in 3D X-ray imaging technology. The scientists ...