Press Photo Laser Beam Plasma Experiment Culham Laboratory Abingdon Berkshire

The Culham Laboratory, Near Abingdon, Berkshire: A experiment using a laser beam to produce a detectable amount of scattered light as it passes through plasma. The ruby laser source, operated in a giant pulse mode, is running at a power of about two million watts during the fifty millionth of a second the pulse is emitted.

Photo measures 8.5 x 6.5 inches.

Photo is dated --0000.

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