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 will be the most powerful on Earth, with an instantaneous power 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] The facility is scheduled for completion in 2023 and will 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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