Understanding Laser Power: How High Does it Generate?

How high does laser power generate? Over their 50-year history, lasers have gone from producing powers of a few hundred watts to greater than a petawatt, or a quadrillion watts. Several key technological jumps have allowed researchers to compress laser beams into infinitesimally short pulses, which amplifies their peak power. Read more on www.americanscientist.org From … Read more