Bakersfield man pleads guilty to pointing laser at helicopter, faces five-year sentence
A 35-year-old Bakersfield man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, to aiming the laser pointer beam at a Kern County ...
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After Testing These 9 Laser Measures and Speaking with an Industry Expert, Our Top Pick is a Must-Have
It has a green laser beam that’s easy to see in daylight (something ... First, the bottom isn’t completely flat, so it does rock a bit when trying to get a measurement. Also, the laser wasn ...
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A startup is developing a 100-gigawatt laser to propel a probe to another star system. That may be powerful enough to 'ignite an entire city.'
An initiative called Breakthrough Starshot wants to explore another star system using ultra-powerful laser beams and wafer-thin spaceships. It's a goal that sounds so fantastic, you'd be forgiven ...
US Warship Fires Laser Weapon in Stunning Photo
The USS Preble is the only U.S. destroyer armed with the HELIOS, which can fire laser beams to destroy fast attack craft and drones.
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Custom Inflatables Are Only A Laser Beam Away
His first attempts either blew right through the film or did absolutely nothing, but eventually he had the bright idea to move the laser farther from the LDPE. This put the beam out of focus ...
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Principles and applications of compact laser–plasma accelerators
Spectacular increase in brightness and decrease in pulse duration of X-ray beams are now foreseen owing to the progress made in laser–plasma interactions. At the frontier between plasmas and ...
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Researchers create world's brightest X-ray source with high-power laser beam and novel metal foams
The electrons in the beam interact with the electrons bound to the metal atoms to create X-rays," he said. "At NIF, we use the high-power laser beam instead of an electron beam to make the X-rays ...