Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" have achieved a breakthrough—creating a completely new type of plasma by combining state-of-the-art technologies using ultrashort laser pulses ...
Optics & Photonics
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Accelerators are far from achieving the highest energies their builders aspire to, but size and cost may limit the kinds of facilities funding agencies can support. In the future, new kinds of machines will be needed to make ...
General Physics
Dec 22, 2009
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How do researchers explore nature on its most fundamental level? They build "supermicroscopes" that can resolve atomic and subatomic details. This won't work with visible light, but they can probe the tiniest dimensions of ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 13, 2019
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Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area particle accelerator can be significantly relaxed. Researchers hope ...
Plasma Physics
May 28, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Flashes appear on a baseball-size Martian rock in a series of images taken Saturday, July 12 by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the arm of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover. The flashes occurred while ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2014
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We've all played at least once with a spring toy, but did you know that light can be shaped like a spring too?
Optics & Photonics
Jun 9, 2023
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When you heat a tiny droplet of liquid tin with a laser, plasma forms on the surface of the droplet and produces extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, which has a higher frequency and greater energy than normal ultraviolet.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 4, 2013
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To observe ultrarapid phenomena such as the motion of electrons within matter, researchers need sources capable of producing extremely fast and energetic light radiation. Although devices capable of emitting pulses with attosecond ...
Plasma Physics
Apr 5, 2012
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Researchers at the University of Strathclyde are developing groundbreaking plasma based light amplifiers that could replace traditional high power laser amplifiers.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 21, 2015
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A new way to create high-energy ions could speed up their applications in treating cancer and probing the fundamental nature of matter.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 13, 2023
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