{"id":16279,"date":"2015-08-18T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/record-breaking-laser-hits-2000-trillion-watts"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:04","slug":"record-breaking-laser-hits-2000-trillion-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/record-breaking-laser-hits-2000-trillion-watts","title":{"rendered":"Record-Breaking Laser Hits 2,000 Trillion Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-breaking-laser-hits-2000-trillion-watts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most powerful laser beam ever created has been recently fired at Osaka University in Japan, where the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2015-08\/ou-wpl080615.php\">Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments<\/a> (LFEX) has been boosted to produce a beam with a peak power of 2,000 trillion watts \u2013 two petawatts \u2013 for an incredibly short duration, approximately a trillionth of a second or one picosecond.<\/p>\n<p>Values this large are difficult to grasp, but we can think of it as a billion times more powerful than a typical stadium floodlight or as the overall power of all of the sun\u2019s solar energy that falls on London. Imagine focusing all that solar power onto a surface as wide as a human hair for the duration of a trillionth of a second: that\u2019s essentially the LFEX laser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/51889-record-breaking-laser-hits-2000-trillion-watts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most powerful laser beam ever created has been recently fired at Osaka University in Japan, where the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments (LFEX) has been boosted to produce a beam with a peak power of 2,000 trillion watts \u2013 two petawatts \u2013 for an incredibly short duration, approximately a trillionth of a second or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69701,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions\/69701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}