Name: The US has a new most-powerful laser
Uploaded: 2025-05-21T10:54:44+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Description: The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has achieved 2 petawatts of power—twice that of any other U.S. laser—during its first official experiment. The ultrashort pulse lasts only 25 quintillionth

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The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has achieved 2 petawatts of power—twice that of any other U.S. laser—during its first official experiment.

The ultrashort pulse lasts only 25 quintillionths of a second but reaches over 100 times the global power output.

ZEUS is a user facility open to researchers and has applications in medicine, security, materials science, and astrophysics.

Scientists aim to generate high-energy electron beams using laser-driven wakefield acceleration, with future plans to reach a zettawatt-equivalent interaction, Phys.org has reported.

The facility, smaller and more agile than major national labs, continues to upgrade toward 3 petawatts.

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