{"id":146502,"date":"2022-09-16T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/first-light-at-the-most-powerful-laser-in-the-us"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T12:22:18","slug":"first-light-at-the-most-powerful-laser-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/first-light-at-the-most-powerful-laser-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"First light at the most powerful laser in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDDV0EjCXLM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The laser that will be the most powerful in the United States is preparing to send its first pulses into an experimental target at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Called ZEUS, the Zetawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> System, it will explore the physics of the quantum universe as well as outer space, and it is expected to contribute to new technologies in medicine, electronics and national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZEUS will be the highest peak power laser in the U.S. and among the most powerful laser systems in the world. We\u2019re looking forward to growing the research community and bringing in people with new ideas for experiments and applications,\u201d said Karl Krushelnick, director of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, which houses ZEUS, and the Henry J. Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laser that will be the most powerful in the United States is preparing to send its first pulses into an experimental target at the University of Michigan. Called ZEUS, the Zetawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System, it will explore the physics of the quantum universe as well as outer space, and it is expected to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}