Prague Will Soon Have The World’s Biggest LASER
The EU (European Union) has decided to start with its plan to build a number of huge, high power lasers in the eastern part of the continent. One of the primary objectives of this rich and powerful European league is to have significant role in the technological progress of the world. As a step towards achieving this goal, the EU has come up with the project of developing superlasers which will have unimaginable power capacity. The governing body of EU, the Europian Commission, has decided to have the first of such superlaser systems to be built in the Czech capital city of Prague.
#-Link-Snipped-#This high tech laser is supposed to have power capacity in the range of exawatt class, which is hundred times more powerful than any of the existing resources. This thing, known as the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), is having the primary application of serving the research and laboratory purposes. Highly directional and powerful laser beams emitted by this Eli could serve as a research tool for developing methods of detecting and curing cancer. The technology might even help solve the problem of nuclear waste management. The horizon of experiments in the nascent fields of nanotechnology and molecular biology will get broadened by the advent of these superlasers.
The decision regarding this project took quite some time because of the capital requirements and confusion about location of the first phase of this project. The ELI project was won after a great deal of drama as five countries were trying to win the bid for the construction of the state of the art technology in their home states. Finally, Czech Republic got the nod to go ahead with it. So the Czechs can now boast of their supremacy in optic and photonic research. Prague has an excellent portfolio with reference to lasers. For the past 10 years, the city has hosted one of the best laser systems in Europe, the PALS (Precision Automated Laser Signals).
Another significant fact about the ELI project is that it is the first mega research project in the Eastern Europe that has been funded by the EU. The project will be completed in a span of 2 to 3 years and will be fully functional by 2015. Its exact location will be in Dolnà B?ežany, near Prague. The ELI will work using super-short pulses of very high energy particle and radiation beams, with each pulse having a duration of 1.5 x 10-14 of a seconds, providing sufficient time to carry out high energy research experiments.
The second and third of the ELI systems will be set up in Hungary and Romania in the same order. All the three superlasers will specialize in radically separate areas of research and a combination of these all will be used to develop a super-super laser whose date is yet to be decided. This laser is expected to have double power capacity as compared to these three devices. This 10 beam combination wil have a power range near to 200 petawatts which will easily exceed the theoretical limit for lasers. The complete project will cost nearly €700 million. Let’s hope that the infrastructure is worth it.
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#-Link-Snipped-#This high tech laser is supposed to have power capacity in the range of exawatt class, which is hundred times more powerful than any of the existing resources. This thing, known as the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), is having the primary application of serving the research and laboratory purposes. Highly directional and powerful laser beams emitted by this Eli could serve as a research tool for developing methods of detecting and curing cancer. The technology might even help solve the problem of nuclear waste management. The horizon of experiments in the nascent fields of nanotechnology and molecular biology will get broadened by the advent of these superlasers.
The decision regarding this project took quite some time because of the capital requirements and confusion about location of the first phase of this project. The ELI project was won after a great deal of drama as five countries were trying to win the bid for the construction of the state of the art technology in their home states. Finally, Czech Republic got the nod to go ahead with it. So the Czechs can now boast of their supremacy in optic and photonic research. Prague has an excellent portfolio with reference to lasers. For the past 10 years, the city has hosted one of the best laser systems in Europe, the PALS (Precision Automated Laser Signals).
Another significant fact about the ELI project is that it is the first mega research project in the Eastern Europe that has been funded by the EU. The project will be completed in a span of 2 to 3 years and will be fully functional by 2015. Its exact location will be in Dolnà B?ežany, near Prague. The ELI will work using super-short pulses of very high energy particle and radiation beams, with each pulse having a duration of 1.5 x 10-14 of a seconds, providing sufficient time to carry out high energy research experiments.
The second and third of the ELI systems will be set up in Hungary and Romania in the same order. All the three superlasers will specialize in radically separate areas of research and a combination of these all will be used to develop a super-super laser whose date is yet to be decided. This laser is expected to have double power capacity as compared to these three devices. This 10 beam combination wil have a power range near to 200 petawatts which will easily exceed the theoretical limit for lasers. The complete project will cost nearly €700 million. Let’s hope that the infrastructure is worth it.
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