In the long run, electrons accelerated by highly repetitive PW-level pulses can drastically reduce the cost of the machine that particle physicists dream of building. Their dream was to build a 30-kilometre electron-positive laser pointer collider that could replace the Large Hadron Collider at the European Nuclear Research Council near Geneva, Switzerland. Plasma physicists at Imperial College…
Day: February 25, 2020
For Driving A Particle Beam With A High-power Laser Pointer
Higher repetition rates are also critical for driving particle beams with high-power laser pointer. In one approach, a strong laser beam can convert a metal target into a plasma. The electrons released by this process in turn eject the protons from the nucleus on the metal surface. Doctors can use these proton pulses to destroy cancer,…
Rangefinders Getting Smaller And Smaller Laser Pointer
After more than three decades of technology upgrades, the laser pointer rangefinder has become smaller and smaller. Prior to this, the latest results of laser rangefinders were still the size of mobile phones, and it was not convenient to carry them. Beginning in 2016, the 15-person R & D team of Juxing Technology and Leica Survey worked…