KZSU Interview about how Laser Accelerators on A Chip will Revolutionize Science & Medicine:

Stanford Professor Robert Byer’s students recently demonstrated their new breakthrough in science, a laser accelerator on a chip , that’s smaller than a grain of rice. In this interview, Professor Byer explained how they are now working on putting many of these laser accelerators

on a wafer, so that they build small, portable x-ray lasers that would revolutionize many applications in science and medicine. Professor Byer and his group published the results of their research in journal Nature’s Sept 27, 2013 issue

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In this interview Professor Byer also discussed how with his students they are researching how to build gamma-ray lasers as well as working hard so that they can measure gravitational waves by 2017. In the last part of the interview, Professor Byer discussed funding for scientific research, fusion energy research at the National Ignition Facility and how fusion energy could help power space ships that can go to the Alpha Centauri

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