Experiment demonstrates beam orders of magnitude more powerful than the Airborne Laser

If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Feb. 17, 2008

If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.

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