An international team has demonstrated a new method for producing the most intense light ever generated in a laboratory.
The research offers a practical pathway to explore Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) — the fundamental study of how light and matter interact at the most basic level.
Researchers from the University of Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast, and global partners used the Gemini laser to “compress” light using clouds of charged particles called plasma.
“The discoveries we have made so far are fascinating and it feels like we are just getting started in terms of understanding the rich and complex physics of this mechanism. The simulations suggest that we may have made the most intense source of coherent light ever,” said Dr Robin Timmis, lead author from the Department of Physics, University of Oxford.
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