To begin with, it will only run at a fraction of its eventual three-quadrillion-watt maximum output.
A laser at the University of Michigan, which is set to be the most powerful in the United States, is preparing to send its first laser pulses into an experimental target,The laser, named the Zetawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System, or Zeus, will be used to investigate quantum physics as well as outer space. It is hoped studies using the laser will also help to build new technologies in electronics and medicine.
Dollar and his team will use ZEUS to send infrared laser pulses into a gas target of helium in order to turn it into plasma. The plasma then accelerates electrons to high energies, producing extremely compact X-ray pulses. These could potentially be used in medicine to greatly reduce the amount of radiation applied to a patient while"We could see every little organ as well as the tiny micro hairs on its leg," Dollar explained.
and objects like galactic nuclei, which are surrounded by extremely hot plasma. "We can recreate the microphysics of hot plasma in extremely strong fields in the laboratory," said Louise Willingale, associate director of ZEUS and an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
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