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World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online
deglr6328 writes "The OMEGA EP laser at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics was dedicated today at the Robert L. Sproull Center for Ultra High Intensity Laser Research. The new laser, which has been in design since ~2002 will, at 1 kilojoule per 1 picosecond pulse, be the highest energy petawatt-scale laser ever created by far. For a fleeting fraction of a second, it will deliver a beam of infrared light at 1054 nm that is more powerful than the total energy consumption of all human activity on the planet, to a tiny spot the size of the head of a pin. Previous petawatt scale lasers such as the one created at Lawrence Livermore labs in the late '90s and (dismantled in 1999) were capable of only several hundred joules per pulse. The new OMEGA EP laser will be able to manifest power densities sufficient to examine Unruh and Hawking radiation-like phenomena in the laboratory and will have the capability to directly produce nuclear reactions through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
wheres the most powerful shark, step on up!
...of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to generate a 1 kilojoule per 1 picosecond pulse is insignificant, next to the power of a good Slashdotting.
You have been warned!
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Step 1: Store 1kJ in a tank of capacitors
Step 2: Short the terminals
Step 3: ???
Step 4: You just consumed the total power output of a power plant for a very small fraction of a second.
(The ??? step can be anything, your capacitors might explode and kill you if you have bad karma.)
The OMEGA EP laser shark at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Bioenergetics was dedicated today at the Dr. E. Vill Center for Ultra Evil Laser Shark Research. The new shark, which has been growing since ~2002 will, at 1 kilojoule per 1 picosecond pulse, have the highest energy petawatt scale laser ever mounted on the back on a shark, by far. For a fleeting fraction of a second, it will deliver a beam of infrared light at 1054 nm that is more powerful than the total power output of all other shark activity on the planet, to a tiny spot the size of the head of a pin. Previous petawatt scale shark lasers such as the one created at Lawrence Lawless labs in the late 90's (and dismantled in 1999) were capable of only several hundred joules per pulse. The new OMEGA EP laser shark will be able to manifest power densities sufficient to exert power over various just-above-soon-below sea-level countries and will have the capability to directly attack nuclear submarines through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration.
Yes, but It couldn't be held in Australia. I don't think rave qualifies as a legitimate reason.
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Worlds biggest laser online? Cool. What's the IP?
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That movie is 11 years old now. The joke is dead.
Good jokes die with age. Bad jokes instead, become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
"Do not stare into laser with remaining eye."
"ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration"
Gawd, I get a chubby just thinking about that.....
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how much popcorn could this thing pop when fired from space or a test aircraft?