ZEUS is expected to produce even higher levels of power later this year. The school gym-sized ZEUS is the successor to the university’s HERCULES system, which topped out at 300 terawatts. ZEUS relied ...

A YouTuber has created what might be the world's strongest handheld laser, and it is capable of punching through titanium. "The legal power limit for a laser pointer is 5 milliwatts. Well, I think it ...

YouTuber Drake Anthony, who goes by "styropyro," has created what he claims is the world's strongest handheld laser. According to Anthony, the legal limit of a laser pointer is 5 milliwatts, so he ...

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts). At more ...

A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do. Known as ZEUS—short for Zettawatt Equivalent Ultrashort laser pulse ...

The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with pulses lasting just 25 quintillionths of a second. The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with ...

For the first time, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have demonstrated the full capabilities of their large-scale laser facility. The team reports generating a combination of ultrashort laser ...