Smashing a fuel pellet with lasers falls under the category of inertial confinement fusion. The other way, known as magnetic confinement fusion, uses powerful magnets to trap a burning cloud of ...
The laser is then used to focus on the incoming threat and hit it, burning through the projectile ... some of these threats" and therefore "powerful new solutions are required." ...
The overall energy generated by those lasers is not especially impressive, but because it is highly compressed in time and space it creates mind-boggling power. These high-power laser pulses ...
Lasers in which the active medium consists of a low-pressure gas of carbon dioxide molecules have been used to produce the most powerful continuous laser beams achieved to date By C. K. N. Patel ...