August 19, 2026
IOS Member Douglass Schumacher Receives NSF Funding to Measure World's Most Powerful Lasers
The $4.5 million grant will support Schumacher and a multi-university team in developing new precision diagnostics for extreme-light lasers, work the physics professor says is essential as these lasers grow more powerful.
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The Institute for Optical Science is a community of multidisciplinary researchers studying the fundamental properties of light and harnessing these properties in practical applications for significant benefit to society.
