National Science Foundation Awards $4.5 Million Grant for Extreme Laser Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $4.5 million grant to a collaborative project called Diagnostics for Extreme Light (DELIGHT). This funding will support continued research by scientists from six universities across the country, including the University of Nevada, Reno. The DELIGHT project focuses not on building lasers, but on measuring the light, particles, and matter generated by some of the world's most powerful lasers. Researchers recently spent four weeks at the University of Michigan, studying the country's highest-intensity laser. Tom White, Physics Department Chair at UNR, described these lasers as capable of generating conditions found at the center of planets, likening them to a billion billion laser pointers focused on one spot for a billionth of a second.
