Most intense laser beam in the universe created

Most intense laser beam in the universe created

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Washington, February 16 : Scientists at the University of Michigan say that they have devised a way to produce a laser beam about as intense as a concentrated ray of the entire sunlight shining towards Earth would be if it were focussed onto one grain of sand.

"That's the instantaneous intensity we can produce. I don't know of another place in the universe that would have this intensity of light. We believe this is a record," said Karl Krushelnick, a physics and engineering professor.

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Hmmmm space weapon perhaps?

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I thought these two paragraphs were pretty interesting.

The Michigan team believes that such intense lasers may be helpful in developing better proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer, among other applications.

The record-setting beam measures 20 billion trillion watts per square centimetre. It contains 300 terawatts of power, 300 times the capacity of the entire US electricity grid. Its power is concentrated to a 1.3-micron speck, about 100th the diameter of a human hair

Other applications, how interesting and unspecific.