\u201cCPA is a state-of-the-art technique that\u2019s still being used to push lasers to higher and higher intensities,\u201d says Jonathan Zuegel, a professor of optics at Rochester and senior scientist at the LLE. \u201cWe put a lot of energy into short pulses that are useful for scientific experiments, but they\u2019re also useful for industry, medicine, and commercial applications. It\u2019s really a fundamental advance.\u201d<\/p>\n
These are just some of the ways Strickland and Mourou\u2019s CPA invention is used in the world today.<\/p>\n
Cancer treatments<\/strong><\/h2>\n![\"xray](\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/brain-tumor.jpg\")
(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCPA can accelerate protons for proton therapies that are used to treat deep-tissue tumors, like those that develop in the brain. \u201cThis is the only way to get to these tumors and very precisely deposit energy where the cancer cells are without destroying the rest of the brain,” Zuegel says.<\/p>\n
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Laser eye surgery<\/strong><\/h2>\n![\"close-up](\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fea-eye.jpg\")
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 photo \/ Flickr user ashleyrosex)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCPA has been used in Lasik eye surgery to quickly slice open the lens of the eye without damaging the surrounding tissue, and nearly 10 million patients in the United States have had their vision corrected with the procedure. Wayne Knox, professor of optics at Rochester, has used CPA to take surgery a step further. Knox is working with commercial startup Clerio Vision to develop new ways of using ultrafast lasers in noninvasive eye surgeries and to modify contact and intraocular lenses. Unlike Lasik, the new procedure does not involve cutting the eye and can be used on the same cornea potentially multiple times as a person ages. \u201cWe are using CPA for the next generation of vision correction,\u201d Knox says.<\/p>\n
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Commercial products<\/strong><\/h2>\n![\"smartphone\"](\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/smartphone.jpg\")
(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCPA lasers opened up an industry for more precise machining of a wide range of materials.\u00a0This process uses thermal energy to remove material from metallic or nonmetallic surfaces. \u201cIndustry has adapted CPA for a range of laser materials processing techniques, including machining of brittle materials like the cover glass used in smartphones,\u201d says Dustin Froula, an assistant professor of physics and senior scientist at the LLE.<\/p>\n
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Studying fundamental physics principles<\/strong><\/h2>\n![\"field](\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/fea-nasa-star-field.jpg\")
(ESA\/NASA photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThis CPA capability allows us to generate huge quantities of charged particles and light for heating matter to stellar interior conditions so fast that the material does not know what happened,\u201d says Gilbert (Rip) Collins, a professor of mechanical engineering and of physics and director of Rochester\u2019s high-energy-density physics program.<\/a> \u201cIt can generate copious quantities of electron-positron pairs emulating electron-positron pair plasma powered by supermassive black holes; it can take ultrafast snapshots of planet goo recreated in a laser compression laboratory experiment; and much more.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Taking images of split-second processes<\/strong><\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/nuclear-fusion.jpg\")
(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
CPA can accelerate protons for proton therapies that are used to treat deep-tissue tumors, like those that develop in the brain. \u201cThis is the only way to get to these tumors and very precisely deposit energy where the cancer cells are without destroying the rest of the brain,” Zuegel says.<\/p>\n
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Laser eye surgery<\/strong><\/h2>\n(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 photo \/ Flickr user ashleyrosex)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCPA has been used in Lasik eye surgery to quickly slice open the lens of the eye without damaging the surrounding tissue, and nearly 10 million patients in the United States have had their vision corrected with the procedure. Wayne Knox, professor of optics at Rochester, has used CPA to take surgery a step further. Knox is working with commercial startup Clerio Vision to develop new ways of using ultrafast lasers in noninvasive eye surgeries and to modify contact and intraocular lenses. Unlike Lasik, the new procedure does not involve cutting the eye and can be used on the same cornea potentially multiple times as a person ages. \u201cWe are using CPA for the next generation of vision correction,\u201d Knox says.<\/p>\n
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Commercial products<\/strong><\/h2>\n(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCPA lasers opened up an industry for more precise machining of a wide range of materials.\u00a0This process uses thermal energy to remove material from metallic or nonmetallic surfaces. \u201cIndustry has adapted CPA for a range of laser materials processing techniques, including machining of brittle materials like the cover glass used in smartphones,\u201d says Dustin Froula, an assistant professor of physics and senior scientist at the LLE.<\/p>\n
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Studying fundamental physics principles<\/strong><\/h2>\n(ESA\/NASA photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThis CPA capability allows us to generate huge quantities of charged particles and light for heating matter to stellar interior conditions so fast that the material does not know what happened,\u201d says Gilbert (Rip) Collins, a professor of mechanical engineering and of physics and director of Rochester\u2019s high-energy-density physics program.<\/a> \u201cIt can generate copious quantities of electron-positron pairs emulating electron-positron pair plasma powered by supermassive black holes; it can take ultrafast snapshots of planet goo recreated in a laser compression laboratory experiment; and much more.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Taking images of split-second processes<\/strong><\/h2>\n(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
CPA has been used in Lasik eye surgery to quickly slice open the lens of the eye without damaging the surrounding tissue, and nearly 10 million patients in the United States have had their vision corrected with the procedure. Wayne Knox, professor of optics at Rochester, has used CPA to take surgery a step further. Knox is working with commercial startup Clerio Vision to develop new ways of using ultrafast lasers in noninvasive eye surgeries and to modify contact and intraocular lenses. Unlike Lasik, the new procedure does not involve cutting the eye and can be used on the same cornea potentially multiple times as a person ages. \u201cWe are using CPA for the next generation of vision correction,\u201d Knox says.<\/p>\n
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Commercial products<\/strong><\/h2>\n(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCPA lasers opened up an industry for more precise machining of a wide range of materials.\u00a0This process uses thermal energy to remove material from metallic or nonmetallic surfaces. \u201cIndustry has adapted CPA for a range of laser materials processing techniques, including machining of brittle materials like the cover glass used in smartphones,\u201d says Dustin Froula, an assistant professor of physics and senior scientist at the LLE.<\/p>\n
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Studying fundamental physics principles<\/strong><\/h2>\n(ESA\/NASA photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThis CPA capability allows us to generate huge quantities of charged particles and light for heating matter to stellar interior conditions so fast that the material does not know what happened,\u201d says Gilbert (Rip) Collins, a professor of mechanical engineering and of physics and director of Rochester\u2019s high-energy-density physics program.<\/a> \u201cIt can generate copious quantities of electron-positron pairs emulating electron-positron pair plasma powered by supermassive black holes; it can take ultrafast snapshots of planet goo recreated in a laser compression laboratory experiment; and much more.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Taking images of split-second processes<\/strong><\/h2>\n(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
CPA lasers opened up an industry for more precise machining of a wide range of materials.\u00a0This process uses thermal energy to remove material from metallic or nonmetallic surfaces. \u201cIndustry has adapted CPA for a range of laser materials processing techniques, including machining of brittle materials like the cover glass used in smartphones,\u201d says Dustin Froula, an assistant professor of physics and senior scientist at the LLE.<\/p>\n
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Studying fundamental physics principles<\/strong><\/h2>\n(ESA\/NASA photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThis CPA capability allows us to generate huge quantities of charged particles and light for heating matter to stellar interior conditions so fast that the material does not know what happened,\u201d says Gilbert (Rip) Collins, a professor of mechanical engineering and of physics and director of Rochester\u2019s high-energy-density physics program.<\/a> \u201cIt can generate copious quantities of electron-positron pairs emulating electron-positron pair plasma powered by supermassive black holes; it can take ultrafast snapshots of planet goo recreated in a laser compression laboratory experiment; and much more.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Taking images of split-second processes<\/strong><\/h2>\n(Getty Images photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cThis CPA capability allows us to generate huge quantities of charged particles and light for heating matter to stellar interior conditions so fast that the material does not know what happened,\u201d says Gilbert (Rip) Collins, a professor of mechanical engineering and of physics and director of Rochester\u2019s high-energy-density physics program.<\/a> \u201cIt can generate copious quantities of electron-positron pairs emulating electron-positron pair plasma powered by supermassive black holes; it can take ultrafast snapshots of planet goo recreated in a laser compression laboratory experiment; and much more.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\nTaking images of split-second processes<\/strong><\/h2>\n