ZEUS is expected to produce even higher levels of power later this year. The school gym-sized ZEUS is the successor to the university’s HERCULES system, which topped out at 300 terawatts. ZEUS relied ...

Scientists could soon probe the secrets of the smallest particles in the world in more detail than ever before following a major upgrade of the most powerful laser of its kind in the world. The U.S.

Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

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). At more ...

Imagine harnessing power on a scale almost unimaginable. A cutting-edge laser facility called ZEUS at the University of Michigan has reached a groundbreaking level of power. It generated a brief pulse ...

A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do. Known as ZEUS—short for Zettawatt Equivalent Ultrashort laser pulse ...

United States Air Force pilots recently conducted wargames that included pilots practicing with virtual laser weapons. In addition, the exercise saw The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Directed ...

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Lasers are a really cool technology. They are used in many different things ranging from optical data storage (CDs, DVDs, Blu Ray, etc) to military grade weapons to medical devices, and perhaps most ...

The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with pulses lasting just 25 quintillionths of a second. The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with ...

Lasers made in Camas are shooting down attack drones and getting ready for bigger jobs. The company's stock is soaring.

Researchers at Osaka University said Monday that they successfully fired the world’s most powerful laser beam. The energy captured in its concentrated beam was equal to 1,000 times the world’s ...