Media Coverage

•  Intense laser experiments provide first evidence that light can stop electrons, Michigan News, February 7, 2018.
• “Doubling the power of the world’s most intense laser,” Michigan News, October 16, 2017.
• “World’s Most Intense Laser Is About to Get a Totally Insane Upgrade,” Science Alert, October 18, 2017.
• “University of Michigan’s HERCULES laser to be upgraded from 300 to 500 terawatts,” Laser Focus World, October 20, 2017.
• World’s most powerful laser set to TRIPLE its power in breakthrough that could change everything from medicine to astrophysics,” DailyMail.com, October 18, 2017.
• “Breaking News – World’s most powerful laser Hercules set to triple power,” US News, October 17, 2017
• “Introduction to the High Field Science Research at CUOS” YouTube video, February 2016.
• “Chillin’ with Chewie/Lightsabers” YouTube video, December 2015.
• “Using HERCULES to probe the interior of dense plasmas,” EECS news, University of Michigan, January 13, 2013 
• “Shortest-pulse X-ray beams could illuminate atomic, molecular interactions,” University of Michigan press release, November 15, 2010
• “HERCULES laser rivals synchrotron for short pulse x-ray beams,” EECS news, University of Michigan, November 2010
• “Tabletop Instrument Makes Synchrotron X-Rays: Simpler and Cheaper Way to Produce Tightly Focused High-Energy Beams,”  ScienceDaily, October 26, 2010
• “Study describes a tabletop source of bright, coherent X-rays,” PhysOrg.com, October 24, 2010
• “Michigan group achieves laser intensity record,”Hercules makes cover of the Laser Focus World magazine, April 2008.
• “The most intense laser in the Universe,” Nature News, February 18, 2008.
• “Zapping with the light fantastic,” Economist Magazine, May 28, 2008.
• “Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity,” University of Michigan press release, February 15, 2008.
• “Technology could revolutionize cancer treatment,” The University of Michigan Record Online, July 6, 2004.
• “High-power laser may influence cancer treatments,” Biophotonics International, page 28, August 2004.
• “Laser may aid cancer therapy,” Associated press, July 8, 2004.
• “U-M lab boasts world’s most powerful laser,” Ann Arbor News, page A1, July 2, 2004.
• “Lasers Nudge into Nuclear Medicine,” Science News, v. 159, No.8 p.123, February 24, 2001.
• “Table-top Laser Offers Alternative to Cyclotron,” Technology World Briefs, Photonics Spectra, p. 50, January, 2000.
• “Pushy Lasers Sweep Into Ion Race,” Science News, Vol. 156, No. 23 December 4, 1999.
• “Closing in on Cancer: A Cheap Proton Source Could Transform Radiotherapy,” New Scientist, December 4, 1999.
• “Ion Accelerators Shrink,'” Inside R&D, John Wiley & Sons, November 19, 1999.
• “Table-Top Laser Accelerator May Soon Provide Alternative to Giant Cyclotrons,” The University Record 55, The University of Michigan, November 15, 1999.
• “Laser Light In, 50-MeV Protons Out,” Physics News Update 457, American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News, November 15, 1999.