Double Laser Pulse Breakthrough

Moment at 37:08 in The World's Most Important Machine by Veritasium.

The Double Laser Hit:**A "pre-pulse" laser hits the droplet to flatten it into a pancake shape, followed by a "main pulse" that vaporizes it into a plasma reaching 220,000 Kelvin, 40 times hotter than the sun's surface.

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