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IN A NUTSHELL 🔬 The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has achieved a groundbreaking 2-petawatt power output. 🌍 Supported by the NSF, ZEUS is a user facility that invites global research teams for cutting-edge experiments. ⚡ The facility aims to generate electron beams with energies comparable to large particle accelerators. 🚀 ZEUS is preparing for a landmark experiment …

A view through the titanium-sapphire crystal that helps to transfer power into ZEUS’s laser pulses. At two petawatts, ZEUS is now the most powerful laser in the U.S. Credit: Marcin Szczepanski/Michigan Engineering Reaching 2 petawatts of power, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at the University of Michigan supports research with potential benefits for medicine, national security, materials science, and other fields. …