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Nearly 60 Years in the Making – Today”s High Power Lasers

This article marked the 50th anniversary of development of the laser in 1960 and details the development path from that first few hundred watt laser to today”s ultrapowerful petawatt and exawatt laser systems. The invention of the laser nearly 60 years ago has led to the latest generation of devices, with power bursts thousands of

Scientists Achieve High Power with New Smaller Laser

The first high-powered, randomly polarized laser beam with a ”Q-switched” laser. An international team of scientists has produced the first high-powered, randomly polarized laser beam with a “Q switch” laser, which typically emits pulses of light so brief that they”re measured in nanoseconds. Lasers are a critical part of modern technology—they”re used in everything from