{"id":156704,"date":"2023-01-31T17:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/creating-ghostly-mirrors-for-high-power-lasers"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:24:55","slug":"creating-ghostly-mirrors-for-high-power-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/creating-ghostly-mirrors-for-high-power-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Creating \u2018ghostly mirrors\u2019 for high-power lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creating-ghostly-mirrors-for-high-power-lasers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laser-driven \u2018mirrors\u2019 capable of reflecting or manipulating light have been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018mirrors\u2019 exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, which currently occupy buildings the size of aircraft hangars, to university basement sizes.<\/p>\n<p>They have potential to be developed into a variety of plasma-based, high damage-threshold optical elements that could lead to small footprint, ultra-high-power, ultra-short pulse <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser-driven \u2018mirrors\u2019 capable of reflecting or manipulating light have been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde. The \u2018mirrors\u2019 exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, which currently occupy buildings the size of aircraft hangars, to university basement sizes. They have potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}