Petawatt
PHELIX
ALFA 2
LULI
LOA
U3
MBI Ti Sapphire
LUND TW
Janus
USP
MBI Nd glass
UHI 10
TITANIA
COMET
ALFA 1
NRL T3
IOQ Jena TiSapphire
ATLAS
LUCA
SLAC T3
Blackett
Toronto Terawatt
DDL
ASTRA
T6
TRIDENT
VULCAN
LABS II
SOFOCKLE
WLC
| | Lasers with extremely short duration pulse, less than 1 picosecond. These lasers
are based on recent advances in pulse compression techniques. CPA lasers can
produce irradiances exceeding 1020 W cm-2. The following table is sorted by decreasing power.
| Laser |
Energy |
Pulse
Length |
Power |
Location |
| (internal link) |
joules
(J) |
femtoseconds
(fs) |
terawatts
(TW) |
(external link) |
| Petawatt |
660 |
440 |
1,500 |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| PHELIX |
500 |
500 |
1,000 |
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) |
| ALFA 2 |
6 |
25 |
300 |
Center for Ultrafast Optical Science |
| LULI |
30 |
300 |
100 |
Laboratoire Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI) |
| P102 |
10 |
300 |
100 |
CEA, Limeil |
| LOA |
0.8 |
25 |
35 |
LOA ENSTA |
| U3 |
1.2 |
23.5 |
60 |
Wilson·Squier Group
Univ. California San Diego |
| MBI Ti:Sa |
0.75 |
30 |
25 |
High Field Lasers, Max Born Institute |
| LUND TW Laser |
1 |
50 |
20 |
Lund Laser Center, Sweden |
| Janus |
10 |
600 |
17 |
Physics & Space Technology, LLNL |
| USP |
1 |
100 |
10 |
Physics & Space Technology, LLNL |
| MBI Nd:glass |
8 |
700 |
10 |
High Field Lasers, Max Born Institute |
| UHI 10 |
0.65 |
65 |
10 |
CEA,
Saclay |
| TITANIA |
2.5 |
250 |
10 |
Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| COMET |
5 |
1,000 |
5 |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| ALFA 1 |
0.05 |
15 |
3 |
Center for Ultrafast Optical Science |
| NRL T3 Laser |
1 |
400 |
2.5 |
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) |
| IOQ Jena Ti:Sa |
0.24 |
100 |
2.4 |
Institut fur Optik und Quantenelektronik
(IOQ) |
| ATLAS |
0.3 |
130 |
2.3 |
MPQ |
| LUCA |
0.1 |
60 |
1.7 |
CEA,
Saclay |
| SLAC T3 |
2 |
1,500 |
1.3 |
Stanford Linear Accelerator |
| T6 (PW-M laser) |
|
|
|
Institute for Laser Engineering (ILE) |
| Blackett |
1 |
1,000 |
1 |
Blackett Lab, Imperial
College |
| Toronto Terawatt |
1 |
1,000 |
1 |
University of Toronto |
| DDL |
|
|
1 |
The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) |
| ASTRA |
0.01 |
50 |
1 |
Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| TRIDENT |
50 |
80 |
0.6 |
Los Alamos ICF and Radiation Physics |
| VULCAN |
|
|
|
Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| LABS II |
|
1,000 |
|
Los Alamos National Laboratories |
| SOFOCKLE |
0.0007 |
40 |
0.02 |
CEA,
Saclay |
| WLC |
10-8 |
4.5 |
10-6 |
Department of Chemical Physics, Groningen Univ. |
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|
Metric prefixes
|
|---|
| milli | 10-3 | kilo | 103 |
| micro | 10-6 | mega | 106 |
| nano | 10-9 | giga | 109 |
| pico | 10-12 | terra | 1012 |
| femto | 10-15 | peta | 1015 |
| atto | 10-18 | exa | 1018 |
| zepto | 10-21 | zetta | 1021 |
| yocto | 10-24 | yotta | 1024 |
|
