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Berkeley Lab Joins Other Labs and Universities in LaserNetUS, A New Nationwide High-Intensity Laser Network

Image - BELLA, the Berkeley Laboratory Laser Accelerator. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Scientists Create Continuously Emitting Microlasers With Nanoparticle-Coated Beads

Image - At left, a tiny bead struck by a laser (at the yellowish spot shown at the top of the image) produces optical modes that circulate around the interior of the bead (pinkish ring). At right, a simulation of how the optical field inside a 5-micron (5 millionths of a meter) bead is distributed. (Credit: Angel Fernandez-Bravo/Berkeley Lab, Kaiyuan Yao)

Diamond ‘Spin-Off’ Tech Could Lead to Low-Cost Medical Imaging and Drug Discovery Tools

Photo - Microscopic images of diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy defects. These samples, which exhibit a truncated octahedral shape, were used in experiments that sought new ways to tune and control an electronic property known as spin polarization. The scale bar at lower right is 200 microns (millionths of an inch). To the human eye, the pinkish diamonds resemble fine red sand. (Credit: Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley)

Study Recommends Strong Role for National Labs in ‘Second Laser Revolution’

Image - A view of BELLA, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Calling All Photographers: Participate in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk Competition on May 16

Image collage - Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk on May 16, 2018.

It All Starts With a ‘Spark’: Berkeley Lab Delivers Injector That Will Drive X-Ray Laser Upgrade

Photo - Berkeley Lab Mechanical Engineers Joe Wallig, left, and Brian Reynolds work on the final assembly of the LCLS-II injector gun in a specially designed clean room at Berkeley Lab in August. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Watching a Quantum Material Lose Its Stripes

Berkeley Lab Intern Focuses on Using Light for Spaceflight

Image - Illustration of a light-driven solar sail (left), with Earth pictured at right. (Credit: Breakthrough Starshot/breakthroughinitiatives.org)

Report: Compact, Precise Beam Could Aid in Nuclear Security

R&D Effort Produces Magnetic Devices to Enable More Powerful X-ray Lasers

Image - A superconducting undulator prototype developed at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Special Delivery: First Shipment of Magnetic Devices for Next-Gen X-Ray Laser

Photo - Workers at KTC, a company in Buffalo, N.Y., prepare the first powerful magnetic devices known as soft X-ray undulator segments for the cross-country journey to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif. Berkeley Lab is overseeing the development and delivery of these segments for use in the LCLS-II project, an upgrade to SLAC’s X-ray laser. (Credit: Keller Technology Corp./KTC)

Laser R&D Focuses on Next-Gen Particle Collider

Photo - Wim Leemans, director of Berkeley Lab's Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division, chats with graduate students Joost Daniels, left, and Kelly Swanson in the BELLA laser control room. Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center is the site of a laser plasma wakefield acceleration R&D effort and other laser experiments that could help set the stage for a next-generation particle collider. (Credit: Paul Mueller)