Laser achieves world record power at one pulse per second
The laser system for BELLA, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator, has delivered a petawatt of power -- a quadrillion watts -- in a pulse just 40 femtoseconds long -- a quadrillionth of a second -- at one pulse per second. No other laser system has achieved this peak power at this pulse rate. BELLA's laser should soon be driving electron beams to 10-billion-electron-volt energies in an accelerator just one meter long....
Published By: ScienceDaily Tech - Friday, 3 August, 2012
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