Laser power on a table.
Laser power on a table
Just as computer manufacturers are packing greater computational Having to do with calculations. Something that is "highly computational" requires a large number of calculations. power into increasingly compact packages, scientists at the Lawrence
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
(Calif.) National Laboratory have designed and built an
extremely powerful tabletop laser that produces short, intense light
pulses previously achievable only in much larger machines. Such a
laser, which fits on a table 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, may prove
useful in university laboratories for investigations of plasmas and for
fundamental studies in atomic and molecular physics. The Livermore
researchers have already used the laser's power to strip electrons
from helium helium (hē`lēəm), gaseous chemical element; symbol He; at. no. 2; at. wt. 4.0026; m.p. below −272°C; at 26 atmospheres pressure; b.p. −268.934°C; at 1 atmosphere pressure; density 0. and neon neon (nē`ŏn) [Gr.,=new], gaseous chemical element; symbol Ne; at. no. 10; at. wt. 20.179; m.p. −248.67°C;; b.p. −246.048°C;; density 0.8999 grams per liter at STP; valence 0. Neon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. atoms.
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