There are many applications for particle accelerators, even outside research facilities, but for the longest time they have been large, cumbersome machines, not to mention very expensive to operate.
Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...
SANTA CLARA, CA - SEPTEMBER 18: A worker at the displays a strip of a hybrid silicon laser chip at company headquarters September 18, 2006 in Santa Clara, California. Intel announced today that its ...