List of petawatt lasers

This page contains a list of petawatt-level lasers in operation, under construction, or proposed. The list is compiled from existing academic reviews.[1][2]

Facility Institution Location Classification Pulse energy [J] Pulse duration [fs] Peak power [PW] Status
Nova Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  United States Nd:glass 660 440 1.5 Decommissioned
NIF-ARC Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  United States Nd:glass 400–1700 1300–38 000 1.5 Operation
Texas Petawatt Laser[3] University of Texas, Austin  United States Nd:glass 186 167 1.1 Operation
Z-PW Sandia National Laboratories  United States Nd:glass 500 500 1 Operation
ZEUS University of Michigan  United States Nd:glass 75 25 3 Commission
12.5 25 0.5
SG-II-PW[4] Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOM)  China Nd:glass 1000 1000 1 Operation
Vulcan Rutherford Appleton Laboratory  United Kingdom Nd:glass 500 500 1 Operation
Orion Atomic Weapons Establishment  United Kingdom Nd:glass 500 500 1 Operation
PHELIX GSI Helmholtz  Germany Nd:glass 250 400 0.625 Operation
LMJ-PETAL CEA Cesta  France Nd:glass 850 700 1.15 Operation
GEKKO XII-LFEX Osaka University  Japan Nd:glass 3000 1500 2 Operation
ELI-B L4 Extreme Light Infrastructure  Czech Republic Nd:glass 1500 150 10 Construction
ELI-NP Extreme Light Infrastructure  Romania Ti:sapphire 242 22.3 10.9 Operation
ELI-B L2 Extreme Light Infrastructure  Czech Republic Ti:sapphire 20 20 1 Operation
ELI-B L3 HAPLS Extreme Light Infrastructure

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 Czech Republic

 United States

Ti:sapphire 30 30 1 at 10 Hz Operation
SULF SIOM

ShanghaiTech University

 China Ti:sapphire 216 21 10.3 Operation
XL-III Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science  China Ti:sapphire 32 28 1.16 Operation
CAEP-PW[5] China Academy of Engineering Physics  China Ti:sapphire 91.1 18.6 4.9 Operation
SG-II-5 PW[6] SIOM  China Ti:sapphire 37 21 1.76 Operation
SEL-100 PW[7] Shanghai High Repetition Rate XEFL and Extreme Light Facility  China Ti:sapphire 1500 15 100 Construction
Gwangju-PW Centre for Relativistic Laser Science  South Korea Ti:sapphire 83 19.4 4.2 Operation
BELLA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  United States Ti:sapphire 40 30 1.3 Operation
ALEPH Colorado State University  United States Ti:sapphire 26 30 0.87 at 3.3 Hz Operation
DIOCLES University of Nebraska-Lincoln  United States Ti:sapphire 20 30 0.7 Operation
NSF OPAL Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester  United States Ti:sapphire 25 Planned
J-KAREN National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology  Japan Ti:sapphire 28/30 33/30 0.85/1 Operation
Gemini Rutherford Appleton Laboratory  United Kingdom Ti:sapphire 15 30 0.5 Operation
VEGA-3 University of Salamanca  Spain Ti:sapphire 30 30 1 at 1 Hz Operation
DRACO Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf  Germany Ti:sapphire 30 30 1 Operation
ATLAS Technical University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

 Germany Ti:sapphire 60 25 2.4 Construction
Apollon CNRS

École polytechnique

 France Ti:sapphire 150 15 10 Construction
CETAL INFLPR  Romania Ti:sapphire 25 25 1 Operation
RRCAT Raja Ramana Centre for Advanced Technology  India Ti:sapphire 25 25 1 Construction
PEARL Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences  Russia Ti:sapphire 18 55–67 (10)a) 0.25–0.3 (1.5)a) Operation

References

  1. ^ Li, Zhaoyang; Leng, Yuxin; Li, Ruxin (2022). "Further Development of the Short-Pulse Petawatt Laser: Trends, Technologies, and Bottlenecks". Laser & Photonics Reviews. 17 (3). doi:10.1002/lpor.202100705.
  2. ^ Danson, Colin N.; et al. (2019). "Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide". High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 7: e54. Bibcode:2019HPLSE...7E..54D. doi:10.1017/hpl.2019.36.
  3. ^ Gaul, Erhard W.; et al. (2010). "Demonstration of a 1.1 petawatt laser based on a hybrid optical parametric chirped pulse amplification/mixed Nd:glass amplifier". Applied Optics. 49 (9): 1676–1681. Bibcode:2010ApOpt..49.1676G. doi:10.1364/AO.49.001676. PMID 20300167.
  4. ^ Xu, Guang; Wang, Tao; Li, Zhaoyang; Dai, Yaping; Lin, Zunqi; Gu, Yuan; Zhu, Jianqiang (2008). "1 kJ Petawatt Laser System for SG-II-U Program". The Review of Laser Engineering. 36: 1172–1175. doi:10.2184/lsj.36.1172.
  5. ^ Zeng, Xiaoming; et al. (2017). "Multi-petawatt laser facility fully based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification". Optics Letters. 42 (10): 2014–2017. Bibcode:2017OptL...42.2014Z. doi:10.1364/OL.42.002014. PMID 28504737.
  6. ^ Zhu, Jianqiang; et al. (2018). "Analysis and construction status of SG-II 5PW laser facility". High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 6: e29. Bibcode:2018HPLSE...6E..29Z. doi:10.1017/hpl.2018.23.
  7. ^ Xu, Dirui; Shen, Baifei; Xu, Jiancai; Liang, Zhenfeng (2020). "XFEL beamline design for vacuum birefringence experiment". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. 982: 164553. Bibcode:2020NIMPA.98264553X. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.164553.

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