{"id":576391,"date":"2019-02-07T09:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=32ba911c09f0e51cc3452271d1b60fb9"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:18:36","slug":"a-long-sighted-laser-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=576391","title":{"rendered":"A long-sighted laser beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, opportunities fall into our laps when we&#8217;re least expecting them. A team of CERN surveyors, in collaboration with the Institute of Plasma Physics in Prague (IPP), has developed a pioneering laser beam while working on a particularly challenging alignment system. &#8220;While developing the alignment system for the HIE-ISOLDE accelerator, we discovered that the system generating a structured laser beam had astonishing optical properties&#8221;, explain Jean-Christophe Gayde (CERN, EN-SMM-ESA) and Miroslav \u0160ulc (IPP), the system&#8217;s inventors. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t initially plan to develop a generator for this kind of laser beam, but the results of our research were very encouraging.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, opportunities fall into our laps when we&#8217;re least expecting them. A team of CERN surveyors, in collaboration with the Institute of Plasma Physics in Prague (IPP), has developed a pioneering laser beam while working on a particularly challenging alignment system. &#8220;While developing the alignment system for the HIE-ISOLDE accelerator, we discovered that the system generating a structured laser beam had astonishing optical properties&#8221;, explain Jean-Christophe Gayde (CERN, EN-SMM-ESA) and Miroslav &Scaron;ulc (IPP), the system&#8217;s inventors. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t initially plan to develop a generator for this kind of laser beam, but the results of our research were very encouraging.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576392,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576391\/revisions\/576392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}