HOW THE GIANT LASER WORKS
Dec 23, 2021
2 minutes
The ultimate purpose of NIF is to focus all the energy from an array of powerful laser beams onto a pea-sized target. The lasers don’t fire continuously, but in a brief pulse just 20 billionths of a second long. That’s enough to raise the target to the enormous temperatures and pressures the researchers need.
From the initial creation of the laser pulse to blasting
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