The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas at Austin, said. Todd Ditmire Dr. Todd Ditmire directs the Texas Petawatt project. The Texas Petawatt is the only operating petawatt laser in the U.S.
Ditmire says that when the laser is turned on, it has the power output of more than 2,000 times the output of all power plants in the U.S. (source: utexas.edu)
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