激光已变得无处不在 ,可用于从条形码读出器到 CD唱机等每样东西。谁曾想到激光能用来劈裂原子 ?几位科学家在十几年前曾提出这样做。但要在实验室内实现它必须等待新技术的成熟 ,这促使美国劳伦斯·里弗莫尔国家实验室和英国卢瑟福·阿普尔顿实验室建造世界最强大的激光器。现 The laser has become ubiquitous and can be used for everything from bar code readers to CD players. Who ever thought that the laser could be used to split the atom? Several scientists proposed doing so a dozen years ago. But achieving it in the lab has to wait for new technologies to mature, prompting the United States Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton, UK, to build the world’s most powerful lasers. Now