Lasers. A staple in science fiction for decades upon decades, they have appeared as ray guns, phasers, lightsabers and much more. But lasers, and even laser weapons, aren't restricted to sci-fi. In ...

The interior of the NIF target chamber. The service module carrying technicians can be seen on the left. The target positioner, which holds the target, is on the right. [Photo: NIF] On March 15, ...

Laser ablation in liquid is a scalable nanoparticle production method in areas like catalysis and biomedicine. Different energy dissipation channels, such as absorption by the liquid and scattering at ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, DOI 10.29026/oea.2022.21005, shows that time resolved studies reveal the origin of the unparalleled high efficiency of one nanosecond laser ablation in ...