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Shtrikman and his Weizmann team soon developed a simple diamond-identifying device. It consists of a small helium-neon laser that directs a beam of light through a pinhole in a sheet of Polaroid film and onto a diamond. As the laser's uniform light waves hit the "table" (or top facet) of the gem, some of them are reflected. Others enter the diamond, circle around inside it and are refracted at varying angles. The result is a unique pattern of spots on the film that looks like a bright, star-cluttered sky; in more advanced versions...
...number of laboratories and one private company-KMS Industries of Ann Arbor, Mich.-scientists are moving closer to doing what they know can be done: fusing the nuclei of deuterium and tritium to create a powerful burst of energy. At KMS and the Government's Los Alamos lab, lasers are being used to "implode" deuterium pellets. Energy has been produced, but not enough to be measured accurately or drive the laser. Within three to five years, scientists hope to reach that break-even point. Power from fusion could become a commercial reality on a small scale by the middle...
Making use of everything from steadily shrinking microcircuitry to high-speed computers and high-energy laser beams, the three U.S. military services this fiscal year are pouring at least $500 million into research and development of new electronic snooping and jamming gear. That bill reflects not a penny of the price paid for R. and D. in the electronics of some new offensive weapons so costly that the military can barely afford to test-fire* them...
...LASER-GUIDED ARTILLERY: The Army is enthusiastic about the potential of a newly developed 155-mm. shell. Fired from a conventional cannon, the 6-in. shell sprouts tail fins and small forward wings to prevent spinning. It can be aimed up to 500 yds. wide of a target illuminated with a laser beam projected by a forward observer. A "seeker" in the nose of the shell picks up the laser reflection, controls the fins and thus guides the shell to the target. Another application of the laser is giving tank guns more accurate range finders. Once they get a target...
...trunk, and walked into the offices of the little firm, a manufacturer of pinholes no wider than a wavelength of light, and found that now he had to wait. The owner of the firm was on the telephone, but Horowitz didn't mind. He glanced through some brochures on laser equipment, and then stared into the rain, wondering how long it would take his dog, a Siberian husky, to dry when he returned home that evening...