Sentence examples for laser facility from inspiring English sources
Now NIF will be coming into operation barely ahead of a competing laser facility under construction in France.
"This is how to take it from a scientific demonstration to a commercial reality," says Professor Mike Dunne, director of the UK's Central Laser Facility (CLF) in Oxfordshire and an instigator of the HiPER project.
The article "A Great Hope of Physics Falls on Hard Times" (Sept . 26 quotes a Lawrence Livermore Laboratory associate director as saying that its multibillion-dollar laser facility is needed to maintain our nuclear deterrent without nuclear testing.
The new laser facility, built between 1997 and 2009 and known as the National Ignition Facility, uses 192 lasers to fire light beams at tiny targets, smaller than peppercorns, filled with hydrogen atoms.
That cannot be maintained anymore and a leaked ministerial briefing dated 13 November outlines the possible consequences of either closing a large UK-based facility – such as the Science & Technology Funding Council's central laser facility – or cutting "quality-related" funding leading to the loss of 700 PhD students and 1,900 full-time equivalent academic salaries.
The proposal suggested a single laser facility would be enough to remove all junk of this size in three years.Another way of slowing junk down, and thus causing it to burn up in the atmosphere, was proposed this month by Alliant Techsystems, a firm based in Minneapolis.
It is clear that this work - which includes supercomputer and laser facilities that can simulate nuclear weapons testing - is for the development and manufacture of a new nuclear warhead.
Electron acceleration experiments were performed at two different laser facilities.
Thin-walled gold halfraums are a common choice for producing X-ray drives in experiments at high-power laser facilities.
The next generation of laser facilities will routinely produce relativistic particle beams from the interaction of intense laser pulses with solids and/or gases.
Finally, two examples on current laser facilities are utilized to demonstrate the evaluation accuracy, robustness and computation efficiency of compressive analysis approach.
