Most powerful laser in the world fires up

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Dr. Todd Ditmire directs the Texas Petawatt project.
Dr. Todd Ditmire directs the Texas Petawatt project.

The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas at Austin, said.


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