Coherently tiled titanium:sapphire laser amplification provides a relatively easy and inexpensive way to surpass the current 10-petawatt limit. “By adding a 2×2 coherently tiled titanium:sapphire high ...

Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup. Credit: Shuangxi Peng, Zhihao Wang, Feilong Hu, Zhengyan Li, Qingbin Zhang, Peixiang Lu Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup.

A new partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ...

Engineers at the first of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) locations under construction in eastern Europe have installed a laser amplifier head that will provide scientists with ten ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freedom Photonics, a leader in photonic components, modules and subsystems, announced its aura TM single mode diode laser amplifier achieved a new performance ...

Ultra-intense ultrashort lasers have a wide-ranging scope of applications, encompassing basic physics, national security, industrial service, and health care. In basic physics, such lasers have become ...

Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) has become a common technique for damage-free amplification of short optical pulses to terawatt levels and beyond. Typical high-repetition-rate Ti:sapphire chirped ...

A joint project led by Focused Energy, based in Darmstadt, Germany is developing what it calls “the world’s first laser-driven neutron source for industrial use”. The LDRS process (Laser-Driven ...