Life imitates art: moon to be equipped with frickin' lasers?Filed under: Up until now, if you wanted to test some theories about the Moon, its distance, or deviations from general relativity, you would have to shoot a laser from Earth to a group of old, dusty and imprecise reflectors from the Apollo era, which sit on the surface the big cheese -- but that might ... 2007-06-26 01:15:00 see all
Weapons: 747 Laser Bests Eye of Sauron in Range, Destructivenessairlaser.jpg Some of the coolest non-conventional weapons being developed now are lasers, and when you make a gigantic laser strapped to a 747, you've won the whole contest right there. This "directed energy weapon" consists of a "megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser beam," which can ... 2007-06-26 00:30:00 see all
Moon-based lasers could uncover exotic physicsPutting lasers on the Moon could pin down the Earth-Moon distance to ultra-high precision, potentially revealing new physics 2007-06-25 15:55:00 see all
versatilityUltravioletLED writes "A company in Petaluma, California has developed highly programmable desktop lasers . The same devices used in hospitals could also be used to turn any metal surface black by simply changing the software. From the article: 'The technology once filled a large room at DARPA ... 2007-06-25 10:11:00 see all
Raman Effect in Zinc OxidePhysical Review, Vol. 142, No. 2. (11 February 1966), 570. The Raman effect in zinc oxide has been measured using the continuous helium-neon and ionized argon lasers as sources. The frequency and symmetry character of the fundamental modes have been determined. The results are: two E 2 vibrations ... 2007-06-26 02:46:00 see all
Moon-based lasers could uncover exotic physicsPutting lasers on the Moon could pin down the Earth-Moon distance to ultra-high precision, potentially revealing new physics 2007-06-25 15:55:00 see all