Vailhem

Vailhem OP t1_j20hqui wrote

Reply to comment by VincentNacon in Relativistic Plasma Mirror Driven at a Record-Shattering 1,000 Shots per Second by Vailhem

Obviously I do. I read the article. An application is built right into an ELI5 idiots guide breakdown via the following quote from the very first paragraph:

> i.e. with a laser field so strong that hurls the plasma electrons back and forth at nearly the speed of light.

'Reflecting' plasma electrons back & forth .. and applications that could benefit from that.

An example could be fusion, though I certainly wouldn't limit its applications to that nor know if it would be beneficial for that.. ..given I nor others have had enough time to think it over per application(s) (given) that it's a recently published breakthrough/discovery in the field of laser physics.

Any more pedantically trivial snideness you'd like to ask while I still have the patience remaining to entertain responding to them?

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