Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For ...

In a recent study published in Communications Physics, an international team of researchers led by the University of Strathclyde have made strides in reducing the size of ultra-high power lasers by ...

Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine learning framework. Researchers in Physics and Computer Science at the University ...

Laser-driven 'mirrors' capable of reflecting or manipulating light have been produced. The 'mirrors' exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, ...

Experts at the BELLA Center used dual laser beams focused onto a sheet of gas to reach a milestone energy in laser-driven electron acceleration. Four members of the larger team gathered with the ...

Strathclyde, UK, and UNIST and GIST (Korea) researchers use plasma gradient to force photons to “bunch up”. A new method of creating laser pulses, more than 1,000 times as powerful as those currently ...

The ‘mirrors’ exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, which currently occupy buildings the size of aircraft hangars, to university basement ...