Construction Worker in Laser Target Chamber at National Ignition Facility Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Coming Generation Of Lasers May Be The Most Powerful Lasers That Will Ever Lase -- Popular Science
The theoretical energy ceiling for lasers is approaching.
The most powerful lasers now being built, such as the forthcoming Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project underway in Europe, may approach the physical ceiling of laser intensity -- they may turn out to be the most powerful lasers that ever can be built, says a new article on the PhysicsBuzz blog.
That finite limit on how intense a laser can get is hypothesized to exist because, at sufficiently high energies, matter can be created out of light.
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My Comment: I am sure that many in Darpa (and equivalent programs in other countries), are watching these experiments very closely.
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