Not A Normal Laser Pointer
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https://phys.org/news/2025-05-powerful-laser.html
Maybe somebody smarter than me can explain why this is a big deal. 555
The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts).
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Link to videoResearch at ZEUS will have applications in medicine, national security, materials science and astrophysics, in addition to plasma science and quantum physics. ZEUS is a user facility—meaning that research teams from all over the country and internationally can submit experiment proposals that go through an independent selection process.
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https://phys.org/news/2025-05-powerful-laser.html
Maybe somebody smarter than me can explain why this is a big deal. 555
The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts).
and
Link to videoResearch at ZEUS will have applications in medicine, national security, materials science and astrophysics, in addition to plasma science and quantum physics. ZEUS is a user facility—meaning that research teams from all over the country and internationally can submit experiment proposals that go through an independent selection process.
@taiwan_girl said in Not A Normal Laser Pointer:
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-powerful-laser.html
Maybe somebody smarter than me can explain why this is a big deal. 555
Well, to start with, 1 Petawatt is the entire energy output of the earth for 20 seconds. This was twice that…
