The Station of Extreme Light (SEL, 极端光物理线站) is laser facility aimed at producing a laser with 100 petawatts (PW) of peak power. The station is currently under construction in Shanghai, China. [1] The laser may be powerful enough to produce matter and antimatter directly from a vacuum [2] (the Schwinger effect).
Upon completion, the laser will be the most powerful on Earth, with an instantaneous power 10,000 times the power of all the world's electrical grids combined, and a trillion trillion times more intense than sunlight, albeit only for a tiny fraction of a second. [3] The facility is scheduled for completion in 2023 and will be able to provide focused intensity of more than 1023 W/cm2. [4]
31°22′42″N 121°14′13″E / 31.378428°N 121.23689°E
The Station of Extreme Light (SEL, 极端光物理线站) is laser facility aimed at producing a laser with 100 petawatts (PW) of peak power. The station is currently under construction in Shanghai, China. [1] The laser may be powerful enough to produce matter and antimatter directly from a vacuum [2] (the Schwinger effect).
Upon completion, the laser will be the most powerful on Earth, with an instantaneous power 10,000 times the power of all the world's electrical grids combined, and a trillion trillion times more intense than sunlight, albeit only for a tiny fraction of a second. [3] The facility is scheduled for completion in 2023 and will be able to provide focused intensity of more than 1023 W/cm2. [4]
31°22′42″N 121°14′13″E / 31.378428°N 121.23689°E