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Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/2009






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Re: Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/20

That's insane :eek:
 
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Re: Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/20

"The NIF laser set-up pulses for 20 billionths of a second. For that time, it generates about 500 trillion watts"

Does Laserbee make a LPM that will handle this ??   :-/
 
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Re: Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/20

That was interesting. The video was pretty good except for the very last shot at the end; the hydrogen pellet shouldn't burn up; it "fuse", producing heavier and heavier molecules (theoretically, until it gets to iron, which is when the payout is less than the energy requirement)
 
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Re: Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/20

OK, That's IT - I'm returning my Hercules, they said IT was the worlds' most powerful laser...

;D ;D ;D
 
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Re: Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/20

Joking aside, you need a special kind of power meter to measure pulse energy. Else, you'll probably burn up the sensor over time and get average power only which is likely to be small.
 
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Re: Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/20

aww you beat me to it.. this is every laser enthusiasts dream! To own a laser capable of MASS DESTRUCTION MUAHAHA .. But seriously they need to be careful with that thing.. One mistake could cause mass derstruction!
 
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Re: Worlds Most Powerful Laser Starting Up 3/31/20

You are a bit wrong.
It says;
Scientists have been working to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for more than half a century. When the National Ignition Facility (NIF) begins ignition experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2010, that long-sought goal will be much closer to realization.

in 2010 not 2009!

https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nif/
 
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