If you blinked, you missed it. Last week, Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), home to the world’s most energetic laser, fired its 192 laser beams for 23 billionths of a second. The ...
How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a nuclear-fusion reaction has generated more energy than it consumed.
The world’s most powerful laser, which was first detailed in a 2012 paper written by a team of researchers from Japans’ Osaka University, has successfully been fired. Turned on for one trillionth of a ...