The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the Carinthian research centre CTR in cooperation with the German-French company Airbus Safran Launchers GmbH the contract to further develop CTR’s HiPoLas® ...

Laser ignition (LI) is a promising electrode-less alternative to electronic spark ignition of lean fuel/air mixtures, offering high thermal efficiency with low harmful emissions. One of the most ...

Spark plugs can only ignite the fuel at one end of the chamber. A laser ignites the fuel in the middle of the chamber instead, burning more of the fuel and improving combustion efficiency by 27 per ...

A new generation of high-energy (>kJ) petawatt (HEPW) lasers is being constructed worldwide to study high intensity laser matter interactions, including fast ignition. A new generation of high-energy ...

Laser ignition (LI) is a promising electrode-less alternative to electronic spark ignition of lean fuel/air mixtures, offering high thermal efficiency with low harmful emissions. One of the most ...

A new generation of high-energy (>kJ) petawatt (HEPW) lasers is being constructed worldwide to study high intensity laser matter interactions, including fast ignition. Fast ignition is a laser-based ...

Scientists at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have successfully delivered an historic level of laser energy -- more than 1 megajoule -- to a target in a few ...

It’s one small step for energy -- and one giant blast for lasers. Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility announced Tuesday a successful test of its ultrapowerful laser system, which melds 192 ...

Laser ignition is the future? Japanese automakers have been searching for a new fuel for decades now. Hydrogen and electric powertrains are the most famous, but sometimes the best thing a manufacturer ...

The field of nuclear fusion has seen some exciting advances of late, with scientists demonstrating how fuels can be heated to the temperatures needed for the necessary reactions to take place. All are ...

A 2.03-megajoule laser blast has been achieved at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The achievement makes the NIF’s ultraviolet laser the most powerful of its ...

On July 5th, the scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) fired the most powerful laser shot ever at over 500 terawatts using 192 beams of ...