[Anthony] at UCLA needed to verify the shape of a laser beam. Commercial units for this, as you would expect, are expensive. But a Raspberry Pi with a Pi Noir camera easily handles the task. Not on… ...

The user can create external applications in a number of platforms, such as Python, Visual Basic, LabVIEW, etc. which will remote-control the beam profiler and software. The ultra-compact design ...

May 20, 2022 — Unlike fictional laser swords, real laser beams do not interact with each other when they cross -- unless the beams meet within a suitable material allowing for nonlinear light ...

Laser focused: simulation of gamma rays being produced by accelerated electrons. (Courtesy: D J Stark et al./Physical Review Letters) A collimated beam of gamma-ray photons could be created by firing ...