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SHIVA LASER SYSTEM [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

A single laser system whose beam is split into twenty separate beams, each of which is amplified several hundredfold before being focused into a chamber in a spherical array of light that converges upon the tiny target.

OBS

The 20-beam laser, completed in 1977, provided more power, better control over conditions, higher temperature, and greater fuel compression than previous lasers, including delivering 10 kilojoules of energy in a billionth of a second.

OBS

It is called Shiva, after the multiarmed Hindu god of both creation and destruction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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