] The Office of Naval Research is part of a team that is ] developing an electrically driven, tunable laser that ] could transmit infrared light for use in ship-defense ] systems. Amazingly the FEL (http://www.jlab.org/FEL/feldescrip.html) at Tomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (or just TJ Labs for short) is now the world's most powerful FEL, zotting pulsed beams in the 10kW power range (full height half mean power). |