Most powerful laser in the world fires up

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Shipkiller

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Take a look at THIS! The Texas Petawatt is the only operating petawatt laser in the country and has the power output of more than 2,000 times the output of all power plants in the United States. Wow.

Ditmire and his colleagues at the Texas Center for High-Intensity Laser Science will use the laser to create and study matter at some of the most extreme conditions in the universe, including gases at temperatures greater than those in the sun and solids at pressures of many billions of atmospheres.


http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uota-mpl040708.php
 
Cool, if I read that right it's producing 1 PW for 0.1 psec which means 100 J pulses - which are plenty healthy at any duration
 
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