Laser Fusion and Exawatt Lasers
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 17:07
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.
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