What happens when you combine laser beams?
Abstract
The way the Death Star works in the fictional Star Wars universe has long been dismissed by scientists as something that defies our physical reality, but researchers at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility have found a way to successfully combine laser beams using plasma for the first time ever.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1404922
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC5207NA27344
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; LLNL; NIF; DEATH STAR; LASER BEAMS; STAR WARS; LASER SYSTEMS; PLASMA; LASER FUSION
Citation Formats
Hunsberger, Maren, and Kirkwood, Bob. What happens when you combine laser beams?. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web.
Hunsberger, Maren, & Kirkwood, Bob. What happens when you combine laser beams?. United States.
Hunsberger, Maren, and Kirkwood, Bob. Mon .
"What happens when you combine laser beams?". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1404922.
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abstractNote = {The way the Death Star works in the fictional Star Wars universe has long been dismissed by scientists as something that defies our physical reality, but researchers at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility have found a way to successfully combine laser beams using plasma for the first time ever.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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