Laser Fusion And Exawatt Lasers
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 19:28
in Physics & Chemistry
In the recent past, producing lasers with terawatt (a trillion watts) beams was impressive. Now petawatt (a thousand trillion watts, or 10^15 watts) lasers are the forefront of laser research. Some labs are even undertaking work toward achieving exawatt (10^18 watts) levels.