What is the World's Most Powerful Laser?

The full name of the Death Star laser is High Repeat Ratio Advanced Gigawatt Laser System (HAPLS), which can release a super-strong laser beam in one trillionth of a second ^[1] . It is the latest development of the most powerful laser in the world by scientists, which helps researchers understand how the universe is formed. It is quite similar to the death star in the science fiction movie Star Wars. ^[2]

Death Star Laser

The full name of the Death Star Laser is High Repetition Rate Advanced Gigawatt Laser System (HAPLS), which can release ultra-strong lasers in one trillionth of a second.

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The Death Star laser system combines top technology from Europe and around the world. It relies on a technical solution called "dual chirped pulse amplification" to ensure that the output pulse can eliminate noise and have high signal strength. The high repetition rate advanced gigawatt laser system will emit ultra-short high-energy laser pulses, generating electromagnetic radiation (high-brightness X-rays) and accelerated secondary sources of charged particles (electrons, protons, or ions). ^[4]

The high repetition rate advanced gigawatt laser system includes two laser systems designed by Lawrence Leigher Laboratories, requiring a length of 4.6 meters and a width of 17 meters, with an additional 4 square meters for the ultimate laser pulse compressor. The first laser system is a diode-pumped solid-state laser that excites and pumps a second laser system, a chirped-pulse amplified short-pulse laser. ^[3]

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Constantin Haefner, a physicist at the Lawrence Lee-Fermor laboratory and director of the HAPLS project, said: "The high repetition rate of high-repetition-rate advanced gigawatt laser systems may lead to new scientific discoveries!" ^[2]