After more than five years of work supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Jeffrey Moses, Ph.D. '07, felt his team was on the cusp of significant progress developing an advanced laser that could be useful for national defense and a host of civilian applications.
So-called ultrashort laser pulses, or ultrafast lasers, are nearly instantaneous bursts of light that can emit power equal to or greater than the entire power supply of the U.S. electrical grid - for a few millionths of a billionth of a second.
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