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The most powerful laser in the US reaches 2 petawatts, setting new records

ZEUS will open new frontiers in imaging, cancer therapy, and astrophysics



The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has vaulted the United States to the forefront of high-intensity laser science. In its first official experiment, ZEUS achieved a peak power of 2 petawatts  twice the output of any other laser in the country. Although this burst, more than 100 times the world's total electricity output, lasts only 25 quintillionths of a second, it represents a major milestone in American research capabilities.

"This milestone marks the beginning of experiments that move into unexplored territory for American high field science," said Karl Krushelnick, director of the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, which houses ZEUS. The university describes the facility, constructed for $16 million, as a "bargain" given its scale and potential.

Supported by the US National Science Foundation, ZEUS operates as a user facility, welcoming research teams from across the country and around the world. Proposals for experiments are selected through an independent review process, ensuring that the laser's capabilities are used for the most promising scientific inquiries. Research conducted at ZEUS is expected to advance fields such as medicine, national security, materials science, astrophysics, plasma science, and quantum physics.

The ZEUS system is primarily built from commercial components and incorporates advanced technologies, including a double chirped pulse amplifier and programmable acousto-optic filters that preserve the precise bandwidth and phase required for ultrashort, high-power pulses. The laser can deliver compressed pulses as brief as 20 femtoseconds, enabling a wide range of cutting-edge experiments.

Inside a space roughly the size of a school gymnasium, ZEUS houses three distinct target areas, each tailored to specific research applications. Target Area 2 is designed for experiments involving solid targets and ion acceleration, while Target Area 3 is optimized for laser wakefield acceleration and can measure electron energies up to approximately 5 GeV.

The facility's ability to split its beam allows it to achieve intensities up to a million times greater than a single beam alone, enabling the study of extreme phenomena such as quantum vacuum structures and the creation of matter-antimatter pairs from empty space.

Website: International Research Awards on High Energy Physics and Computational Science.


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