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BELLA (laser) The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator ( BELLA) is a laser built by the Thales Group and owned and operated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [1] [2] On 20 July 2012, BELLA fired a 40 femtosecond laser pulse, establishing a world record for most powerful laser. [2] [3]
The Station of Extreme Light (SEL, 极端光物理线站) is laser facility aimed at producing a laser with 100 petawatts (PW) of peak power. The station is currently under construction in Shanghai, China. [1] The laser may be powerful enough to produce matter and antimatter directly from a vacuum [2] (the Schwinger effect ).
Extreme Light Infrastructure. The Extreme Light Infrastructure ( ELI ERIC) is a research organization with the world's largest collection of high power-lasers. [1] ELI operates several high-power, high-repetition-rate laser systems which enable the research of physical, chemical, materials, and medical sciences. [2]
ARC is essentially a petawatt-class laser with peak power exceeding a quadrillion (10 15) watts. It is designed to produce brighter, more penetrating, higher-energy x rays. ARC became the world's highest-energy short-pulse laser, capable of creating picosecond-duration laser pulses to produce energetic x rays in the range of 50–100 keV. [109]
Laser types with distinct laser lines are shown above the wavelength bar, while below are shown lasers that can emit in a wavelength range. The height of the lines and bars gives an indication of the maximal power/pulse energy commercially available, while the color codifies the type of laser material (see the figure description for details).
An ultrashort pulse laser is a laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light, generally of the order of femtoseconds to one picosecond. They are also known as ultrafast lasers owing to the speed at which pulses "turn on" and "off"—not to be confused with the speed at which light propagates, which is determined by the properties of the medium ...
In June 1995, OMEGA became the world's highest-energy ultraviolet laser. The lab shares its building with the Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging and the Center for Optics Manufacturing. The Robert L. Sproull Center for Ultra High Intensity Laser Research was opened in 2005 and houses the OMEGA EP laser, which was completed in May 2008.
The Hercules 500, made by Laserglow, held the world record for the world's most powerful handheld laser in 2012, and appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009. The laser was tested three times in five-minute durations using two separate laser power meters, and created an output 1W peak and 940 mW (+/- 20 mW) average power.