Most powerful laser in the world is 'mind blowingly' POWERFUL!

1,000,000,000,000,000 watts - we wrote it, you read it. That's how powerful the world's most powerful laser will be. Research engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aka LLNL have recently received about $45 million in funds to develop a new type of laser system at the ELI-Beamlines facility at Dolni Brezany in Czech Republic. The engineers will aim for the development of what's called HAPLS aka High Repetition-Rate Advance Petawatt Laser System. Once realised, the system will be considered as a major advancement in the high power laser science. The USP of the HAPLS will be its firing rate, which will be about 10 Hz. Each pulse of the laser will be short lived, lasting about 30 femtoseconds.

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CAD Model of ELI-HAPLS
Image Credit: ELI-Beamlines​

High power lasers aren't new; but this new system will be a game changer. Regular readers of CrazyEngineers may remember our article about TWI's 5kW handheld laser gun is ideal for nuclear power plant decommissioning capable of decommissioning a nuclear plant. The laser gun, with just 5KW of power could cut bare metal assemblies like a hot knife in butter. We also wrote about Boeing's Got High Power, Solid State Laser That Burns Almost Anything that could take aircrafts and flying objects down easily. We'll leave it to your imagination to figure out what a 10^15 watt laser is capable of. We told you, it's 'mind blowingly' powerful!

The project will see contribution from the researchers and engineers from LLNL & Czech Institute Of Physics. The design, development, testing and installation of the system is expected to be complete by 2017. Once ready, the system will be made available to the global scientific community. It is expected to be used mainly for the study of cosmos and pulsars.

Have a look at this official video from ELI-Beamlines that talks about the high power laser project.


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