{"id":34948,"date":"2017-02-27T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-have-unveiled-the-worlds-most-powerful-super-laser"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:11:06","slug":"scientists-have-unveiled-the-worlds-most-powerful-super-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-have-unveiled-the-worlds-most-powerful-super-laser","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Unveiled The World\u2019s Most Powerful \u201cSuper Laser\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-unveiled-the-worlds-most-powerful-super-laser.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British and Czech scientists have unveiled a new \u201csuper laser\u201d that they claim is the most powerful pulse laser available today.<\/p>\n<p>The laser was developed by Britain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.stfc.ac.uk\/Pages\/home.aspx\">Central Laser Facility (CLF)<\/a> and Czech research and development project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hilase.cz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">HiLASE<\/a> (high average power pulsed laser). The 22-ton device has been dubbed Bijov after a mythical Czech strongman, and it cost $48 million to build.<\/p>\n<p>Bijov has an average power output of 1,000 watts \u2014 a world record for pulse lasers. It first crossed this \u201cmagical barrier\u201d on December 16, 2016, and HiLASE physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\/758766\/POWERFUL-super-LASER-clf-hilase\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Divoky told AFP<\/a> that it is \u201c10 times as powerful\u201d as any other laser of the same type.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-have-unveiled-the-worlds-most-powerful-super-laser\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-have-unveiled-the-worlds-mos...per-laser\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British and Czech scientists have unveiled a new \u201csuper laser\u201d that they claim is the most powerful pulse laser available today. The laser was developed by Britain\u2019s Central Laser Facility (CLF) and Czech research and development project HiLASE (high average power pulsed laser). The 22-ton device has been dubbed Bijov after a mythical Czech strongman, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34948","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58560,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34948\/revisions\/58560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}