Quantum mechanics

Laser power scaling

Materials science

Aperture (computer memory)

Energy (signal processing)

Power (physics)

Acoustics

Laser

Physics

Optics

Femtosecond

Optoelectronics

High Power Laser Science and Engineering

We report on the generation and delivery of 10.2 PW peak power laser pulses, using the High Power Laser System at the Extreme Laser Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics facility. In this work we demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the compression and propagation of full energy, full aperture, laser pulses that reach a power level of more than 10 PW.

10 PW peak power femtosecond laser pulses at ELI-NP