The optical absorption of the mirror was less than 0.3 percent at the operating wavelength of the NIST laser, so that cooling the mirror was not a concern for these experiments.

Laser Fusion Experiment Unleashes an Energetic Burst of Optimism. ... Each blast starts with a small laser pulse that is split via partly reflecting mirrors into 192 beams, ...

An epic lunar laser experiment is still going strong, five decades after the Apollo astronauts set it up on the surface. The moonwalking crew of Apollo 11, which landed on the moon 50 years ago ...

By bouncing a low-power laser off of a piezo-actuated mirror, the hope is that the glasses will be able to project simple vector graphics onto a piece of reflective film usually used for ...

The new results are significant improvements over the historic experiment in 2022, which was the first controlled fusion reaction to generate more energy than it consumed.. The 2022 shot generated ...

The mirror will form a crucial focusing element in RAL's ongoing experimentation using the Vulcan Nd:Glass High Energy Laser. Trevor Winstone, Operations Manager for the Vulcan Laser at RAL commented, ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd has delivered a 305 mm diameter spherical mirror to the GSI Helmholtz Zentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Germany for use in novel particle acceleration experiments.

Ultra-smooth focusing mirrors for high-power laser experiments 20 Dec 2022 Drawing upon decades of experience - Optical Surfaces Ltd . is regularly selected by leading laser research groups including ...

One of the experiments taken into space on Apollo 11 was called the Lunar Laser Retro-Reflector, and it still works even today (though perhaps not as well as it did), just like it did in a 2010 ...

ALPS II is expected to reach full sensitivity later this year and will have its mirror system upgraded next year. The first data from the experiment is expected in 2024.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully bounced a laser off of a cookie-sized mirror on Inida's Vikram moon lander in an experiment that could greatly improve the precision of future moon ...

Experimental results obtained using the Gemini laser in STFC's Central Laser Facility and published in Nature Communications are the first to demonstrate that laser light reflected from a ultrathin ...