Originally Posted by
T0mmm
no wonder they haven't achieved fusion yet, the guy at 0:50 is measuring that big prism with a tape measure!
That is just quietly showing off, no one elsewhere in the planet can make one that big. They had to develop the growth technique on site. The plasma driven Q switch is another wonder.
They bathe the Q switch faces in glowing plasma because that was the fastest way of getting the HV pulse evenly distributed across the giant Q switches they use, as no metal film or indium tin oxide coating could take the pulse power.
Steve
Qui habet Christos, habet Vitam!
I should have rented the space under my name for advertising.
When I still could have...