Station of Extreme Light

Example of Petawatt laser

The Station of Extreme Light (SEL) is laser facility aimed at producing a laser with 100 petawatts (PW) of peak power. The station is currently under construction in Shanghai, China.^[1] The laser will be powerful enough to reach the Schwinger limit, which could allow it to produce matter and antimatter directly from the vacuum of space.^[2]

Upon completion, the laser will be the most powerful on Earth, with an instantaneous power 1,000 times the power of all the world’s electrical grids combined, and 10 trillion times more intense than sunlight, albeit only for a tiny fraction of a second.^[3] The facility will be completed in 2025 and will be able to provide focused intensity of more than 10²³W/cm².^[4]

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^ Cartlidge, Edwin (2018-01-24). "Physicists are planning to build lasers so powerful they could rip apart empty space". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
^ Berboucha, Meriame. "This Laser Could Rip Apart Empty Space". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
^ "Chinese laser project 'could rip apart empty space'". NewsComAu. 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
^ "The Laser at 60: Ruxin Li".

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[CartlidgeJan-1] Cartlidge, Edwin (2018-01-24). "Physicists are planning to build lasers so powerful they could rip apart empty space". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2021-02-18.

[Berboucha-2] Berboucha, Meriame. "This Laser Could Rip Apart Empty Space". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-02-18.

[NewsComAu-3] "Chinese laser project 'could rip apart empty space'". NewsComAu. 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2021-02-18.

[osa-4] "The Laser at 60: Ruxin Li".

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