The Most Powerful Laser Beam In The World !

Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity

If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory.


Link:


www.physorg.com...


"Such intense beams could help scientists develop better proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer, among other applications."





This technology could prove to be life changing, who knows.

[edit on 17-2-2008 by pmexplorer]

Wow thats amazing. I wonder what pointing a laser like that would do to metal/wood/flesh etc. it says in the text "that concentrated ray would APPROACH the intensity of a new laser beam..." Does that mean its even more intense than the sun focused?

Wow, imagine how much I was NOT surprised to see this name - Victor Yanovsky.

Not surprisingly, his name is not present on this page though;

The Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) is an interdisciplinary research center in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

www.engin.umich.edu...

Here he is, the man him self!

Dr. Victor Yanovsky has a PhD from Institute of General Physics of USSR’s Academy of Sciences (1989). Before coming Michigan he had a research associate position at Cornell university and a physicist position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he participated in developing of the first Petawatt laser and the first laser-cluster source of fusion neutrons. Here in Michigan he directs the HERCULES laser- the highest intensity laser in the world, and is interested in ultrahigh-intensity intensity interactions with solids including those in the radiation dominated regime , particle acceleration at high intensity and attosecond pulse generation from solid targets.


Project:
1. Development of the first Petawatt-scale laser at high repetition rate

2. Laser- solid interactions at high intensity

focuspfc.physics.lsa.umich.edu... Yanovsky

Take a wile guess why he’s there, what he’s been working on in USSR, and what Karl Krushelnick actually knows and really understands about the details of the project?

Here’s some basic history on the US side;

1996;

Femtosecond diode-pumped Cr:LiSGAF lasers
Yanovsky, V.P. Korytin, A. Wise, F.W. Cassanho, A. Jenssen, H.P.
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY ;

This paper appears in: Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
Publication Date: Sep 1996
Volume: 2, Issue: 3
On page(s): 465-472
ISSN: 1077-260X
References Cited: 33
CODEN: IJSQEN
INSPEC Accession Number: 5579084
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/2944.571745
Posted online: 2002-08-06 20:48:51.0



Abstract
The design and performance of diode-pumped Cr:LiSrGaAlF6 lasers mode-locked by Kerr-lens mode-locking and a solid-state saturable absorber are described. The different regimes of operation of the laser mode-locked by the saturable absorber are discussed. Both lasers generate 100-fs pulses with average powers of 40 mW and low fluctuations

ieeexplore.ieee.org...

2006 and HERCULES LASER project;

Behind this door sits a giant laser called "Hercules." It's named after the powerful greek hero for good reason.

Dale Litzenberg, Ph.D
Research Investigator
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"The pulse lasts about 30 millionths of a billionth of a second, so you take a lot of energy, press in a short amount of time in a very small spot size, it makes it an extremely powerful laser."

Doctors say the intensity of the sun beating down on you on a hot summer day is nothing compared to this laser's power.

Victor Yanovsky, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Basically, billion, billion, billion times higher than that. So intensity like that you can only imagine in very rare astrophysical events like explosions of stars."

www.wchstv.com...

Take a wild guess what professor Karl Krushelnick and doctor Dale Litzenberg have in common in these research projects? They are MANAGERS, so who are the real researchers and where does the technology comes from?

It’s the Van Braun scenario all over again, and while he him self was also a manager that organized the German scientific team, this time around they learned the lesson and keep placing their own managers as a control measure.

If you guys really want to know, find out the original team Yanovsky was working with and who was his mentor.

This is definitely Above Top Secret material.

can anyone see this type of technology being used in the military??? make it last a little bit longer and bingo you've got a next generation of military lasers... that is if the us military doesn't already have something stronger or equivalent to it...

raptor1

Yes - but can you mount one of these lasers on a shark's head?

If you can't - I am not interested.

Seriously - really cool stuff. I an only imagine what sort of doors can be opened with this technology - both good AND bad.

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These technological achievments are usualy financed not by health department ,but it's direct oposit. You can see already prototypes of similar lasers for military.
www.boeing.com...
So cancer treatments are secondary. Main reason is "other implications".

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What ever the miltary has they jump 50 years a head each year in technology of John Doe public. The Shuttle has technology that we are not suppose to know about and the antique combustion engine technology is still being used by we the people while our military has the latest anti-gravity spacecraft. We the people are living in 2008 and our military and secret military are using technology from the year 2550 a conservative estimate at best. Rik Riley

50 years is pushing it in my opinion... most people put the military technology at 10 to 20 years in advance of what we the public know... but yeah their definitely way ahead of the general public.

raptor1