Station of Extreme Light

The Station of Extreme Light (SEL, 极端光物理线站) is laser facility aimed at producing a laser with 100 petawatts (PW) of peak power. The station is currently under construction in Shanghai, China.[1] The laser may be powerful enough to produce matter and antimatter directly from a vacuum[2] (the Schwinger effect).

Example of petawatt laser

Upon completion, the laser will be the most powerful on Earth, with an instantaneous power 10,000 times the power of all the world's electrical grids combined, and a trillion trillion times more intense than sunlight, albeit only for a tiny fraction of a second.[3] The facility is scheduled for completion in 2023 and will be able to provide focused intensity of more than 1023 W/cm2.[4]

See also

References
  1. Cartlidge, Edwin (2018-01-24). "Physicists are planning to build lasers so powerful they could rip apart empty space". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  2. Berboucha, Meriame. "This Laser Could Rip Apart Empty Space". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  3. "Chinese laser project 'could rip apart empty space'". NewsComAu. 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  4. "The Laser at 60: Ruxin Li".

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