World's most powerful laser is 2,000 trillion watts – but what's it for?
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 08:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The most powerful laser beam ever created has been recently fired at Osaka University in Japan, where the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments (LFEX) has been boosted to produce a beam with a peak power of 2,000 trillion watts – two petawatts – for an incredibly short duration, approximately a trillionth of a second or one picosecond.