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But while ZEUS is the most powerful laser in the US, it’s still less powerful than the laser at the European ELI-NP laboratory in Măgurele, Romania that peaks at 10 petawatts of power.

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts).

John Nees (left) and laser engineer Paul Campbell (right) work in Target Area 1, where the first 2 petawatt user experiment will take place. ZEUS is now the most powerful laser in the US.

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It’s called the “high peak power laser,” and operates with an average output of 1,000 watts. For comparison, a typical laser pointer used in an office would output somewhere in the ...