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(N.Morgan) The latest innovation in researching the cosmos has been dubbed the Death Star Laser. It has been named after Darth Vader’s Death Star, for its similarities. It would be the most powerful laser ever created and would give researchers new insights into how the cosmos was created. Called the High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS), it will emit 100,000 times more power than all the power stations in the world – for a tiny fraction of a second.

The project has been nicknamed the ‘death Star’ after the Star Wars craft that could blow up planets.

How Powerful is it?

HAPLS is designed to ultimately generate a peak power greater than 1 petawatt (1015 or 1 quadrillion watts). Each pulse will deliver 30 joules of energy in less than 30 femtoseconds (trillionths of a second or 0.00000000000003 seconds) – the time it takes light to travel a fraction of the width of a human hair.

The laser system will deliver these pulses of light at 10 hertz (10 repetitions per second).The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Beamlines project is an EU-funded lab being developed with experts from around the world, including Lawrence Livermore lab in the US, and being built in the Czech Republic. Due to be switched on by 2017, it will emit a short laser burst with an intensity of 1023 watts per square centimeter.

‘ELI will become the first international laser research facility, much like a ‘CERN for laser research’, hosting some of the world’s most powerful lasers enabling a new era of unique research opportunities for users from all countries,’ said Professor Wolfgang Sandner, director general of the ELI-Delivery Consortium International Association (AIBSL). The system combines technologies from across Europe and around the world. It relies on a scheme referred to as ‘double-chirped pulse amplification,’ enabling high signal to noise in the output pulses which will seed HAPLS.

The ‘death star’ laser: The solid-state, short-pulse laser converts the energy from the pump laser to 30-joule, 30-femtosecond pulses for a peak power exceeding 1 petawatt. The laser system measures just 4.6 meters wide and 17 meters long.

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