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2) is heralded as the clean fuel of tomorrow. Because H
2 can be produced from water (H
2O) without generating carbon emissions, developing H
2-compatible technologies has become a top priority. However, the road ahead is bumpy, and many technical limitations must be ironed out. Hydrogen is the smallest molecule in nature, and finding feasible ways to store it is a critical issue to realize a hydrogen economy, states Associate Professor Youngjune Park from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Korea. Unlike hydrocarbons, pure H
Researchers Produce Laser Pulses With Record-Breaking Intensity photonicsonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from photonicsonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scientists generate the highes.
A researcher at work on a petawatt laser at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) in the Republic of Korea
Chang Hee Nam/CoReLS 1/2
A researcher at work on a petawatt laser at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) in the Republic of Korea
Chang Hee Nam/CoReLS 2/2
A laser-matter interaction chamber for proton acceleration at South Korea s Center for Relativistic Laser Science, where scientists generated the highest-intensity laser ever produced
Chang Hee Nam/CoReLS
Scientists in South Korea have achieved a major milestone in physics – and one pursued by researchers in the field for decades – by generating a record-breaking ultra-high intensity laser. The pulse intensity of over 10
Highest intensity laser ever
Credit: Chang Hee Nam, CoReLS
After a decade of work, researchers at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea have achieved a record-high laser pulse intensity – over 1023 Watts per centimetres squared (W/cm
2).
This is equivalent to focusing all of the light reaching Earth from the Sun onto a spot just 10 microns wide – just a little bigger than the width of a human red blood cell.
It beats the 1022 W/cm
2 laser demonstrated by a team at the University of Michigan in 2004.
“This high-intensity laser will let us tackle new and challenging science, especially strong field quantum electrodynamics, which has been mainly dealt with by theoreticians,” says Chang Hee Nam, director of CoReLS and professor at Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology.