Ultra-Powerful Laser To Be Built In Romania 41
cripkd writes "The 3rd pillar from the ELI program was given the go ahead Tuesday: 'In Romania, Magurele, the ELI pillar will focus on laser-based nuclear physics. For this purpose, an intense gamma-ray source is foreseen by coupling a high-energy particle accelerator to a high-power laser.' Here are some specs and details about why this is not your regular key-chain laser."
What is it to "coherently add" laser beams? (Score:4, Interesting)
But "coherently adding" beams sounds exactly like this. Does anyone know if it really is the same thing, or how it works?