US Navy Achieves Milestone in Free Electron Laser Program

Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, N.M., have achieved a remarkable breakthrough with the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Free Electron Laser (FEL) program, setting the stage for a preliminary design review scheduled Jan. 20-21 in Virginia. Researchers demonstrated an injector capable of producing the electrons needed to generate megawatt-class laser beams [...]