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ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan

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126 points voxadam | 1 comments | 21 May 25 15:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | source
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megous ◴[21 May 25 17:49 UTC] No.44054142[source]▶
I don't think anyone should be impressed by watts. Jouls are where all the real work is.

Asside for the PR article. What's the use case for pettawatt laser pulse lasting 25 quintillionths of a second?

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1. floxy ◴[21 May 25 19:44 UTC] No.44055480[source]▶
Seems like you always start somewhere. First you have 25E-18, then bump it up to 1e-15, and maybe someday you are at 1e-9 and are doing inertial confinement fusion.