Japanese Scientists Set World Record for Most Powerful Laser Beam | Digital Trends
Combine this with US Navy laser tech and Pentagon mobile technologies...formidable. Once they can sustain the burst.
In news news that we?re sure super villains everywhere will be thrilled to hear, scientists at Osaka University in Japan have reportedly fired the world?s most powerful laser beam. To do this, researchers used the university?s massive, 300-foot LFEX (Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments) to blast out a 2-petawatt burst (2,000,000,000,000,000 watts) ? allegedly the largest burst ever achieved.
Two quadrillion watts is, without question, a ridiculously large amount of output. But the thing is, the laser didn?t actually emit that many watts for very long. The burst only lasted about one picosecond (1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second), so while the LFEX?s output was incredibly large, the actual amount of power (energy divided by time) it used wasn?t all that big. When it was all said and done, the laser only produced enough power to run a microwave for about two seconds.
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