Organization:Station of Extreme Light
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).
Upon completion, the laser was at one time said to have been expected to be the most powerful on Earth, with an instantaneous power that according to the prediction at that time was to be 10,000 times the power of all the world's electrical grids combined, and a trillion trillion times more intense than sunlight, albeit only for a tiny fraction of a second.[3]Template:And then what The facility was formerlyTemplate:And then what scheduled for completion in 2023 and was at that time expected to be able to provide focused intensity of more than 1023 W/cm2.[4]
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References
- ↑ Cartlidge, Edwin (2018-01-24). "Physicists are planning to build lasers so powerful they could rip apart empty space" (in en). https://www.science.org/content/article/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space.
- ↑ Berboucha, Meriame. "This Laser Could Rip Apart Empty Space" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/meriameberboucha/2018/01/28/this-laser-could-rip-apart-empty-space/.
- ↑ "Chinese laser project 'could rip apart empty space'" (in en). 2018-01-28. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/china-is-building-a-laser-10-trillion-times-more-intense-than-sunlight-that-could-tear-space-apart/news-story/cd86c92518ae710046d300505e3dc192.
- ↑ "The Laser at 60: Ruxin Li". https://www.osa-opn.org/home/newsroom/2020/may/the_laser_at_60_ruxin_li/.
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