France plans extreme laser light source
MAR 01, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020904
Nature : A team led by Gérard Mourou, director of the Laboratory of Applied Optics near Paris, believes it can design a laser source that is a thousand trillion times more intense than the billion dollar US National Ignition Facility, for one tenth the cost of NIF. The French government agreed on the 15 February to pay for an experimental beam at the Laboratory of Applied Optics to prove whether the concept will work. The research is part of effort by particle physicists to consider cost as a consideration for the next generation of particle physics equipment.
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