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shikari_rock
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Posted: 6/06/07, 10:20 AM Post subject: What's the

Any ideas?

Schrecken Licht
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Posted: 6/13/07, 8:58 PM Post subject:

Those super-powered lasers that are measured in watts (or translated into watts; a joule is 1 watt per minute) can hit well into the terawatt range (millions and millions of watts!). For other reference, high powered military lasers (like the airborne laser and MTHEL) are measured in megawatts (though the exact wattage is a classified secret). The military simply uses the term "megawatt range" to describe the power of these beasts. The lower threshold for militarily useful (as a weapon capable of causing debilitating damage to a target) wattage is 100 kilowatts, anything that powerful or more so is considered "weapons grade". Industrial lasers range from tens of watts to tens of kilowatts; the most powerful non-weapons laser is rated at 120 kilowatts (these are almost always carbon dioxide lasers). It is used to weld ship hulls. _________________ Lasers are like potato chips - you can't have just one! Nexus 95mw, Confirmed 173 mw Pulsar, , 131mw argon-ion laser, Core laser, and Signature Fusion 125mw, 100mw blue - average output 131mw - lab laser, and a 20 WATT (yeah you read that right!) CO2 laser!:

Laser Ben
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Posted: 6/13/07, 9:55 PM Post subject:

Schrecken, what exactly do you do? Do you work for a laser company? _________________

King K
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Posted: 6/13/07, 11:46 PM Post subject:

There is also that 1.25PW laser developed by Livermore Laboratory. 1.25PW = 1250000000000000000mW (I think) EDIT: Thanks for the correction, Laser™! _________________ >>Click here to go to my laser userbars site!<< Last edited by King K on 6/20/07, 12:24 PM; edited 1 time in total

Laser Ben
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Posted: 6/14/07, 12:28 AM Post subject:

That is the NIF. That is the peak power that has been tested so far. I have seen it from a plane and from the highway. The building is huge, and that's coming from a person why has been inside the world's biggest wind tunnel! _________________

Laser™
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Posted: 6/16/07, 9:54 AM Post subject:

Schrecken Licht wrote:

Those super-powered lasers that are measured in watts (or translated into watts; a joule is 1 watt per minute) can hit well into the terawatt range (millions and millions of watts!).

1 Joule = one Watt second with the symbol W·s

King K wrote:

There is also that 1.25pW laser developed by Livermore Laboratory.

1.25pW = 1250000000000000000mW (I think)

Sorry to be annoying and picky but its PW (x10^15 (PetaWatts)) and not picoWatts (x10^-12). But you are right saying that 1.25PW = 1250000000000000000mW :P
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gelo
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Posted: 6/20/07, 7:23 AM Post subject:

the most powerful laser that is stable is a IR/UV gas laser at it is rated at 250000W lol. its used to burn things and see their reactions. it vaporises titanium lol

shikari_rock
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Posted: 6/20/07, 7:44 AM Post subject:

Are you sure? Is it's CW or pulsed?

Schrecken Licht
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Posted: 6/23/07, 11:25 PM Post subject:

Laser Ben wrote:

Schrecken, what exactly do you do? Do you work for a laser company?

Uh, not really....actually I'm just a freelance artist with a bachelor's degree in photography (right now I'm doing a lot of movie and haunted house props)! However, I did at one time work in a laser machine shop (I didn't choose to work there because of the lasers - I just needed work period, but I joined a temp agency and that's where they sent me). I was there less than a year but I found the place immensely fascinating and I decided to learn everything I could about lasers.

That was eight years ago, but about a year ago I began to write a science fiction novel and again I did a huge amount of research on lasers and laser weaponry. Now all I have to do is try to get my novel published!
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darkphoenixv1
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Posted: 8/06/07, 8:11 AM Post subject:

Either way, they're very powerful...I wouldn't want to be on the other end of one

Moffitt
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Posted: 8/06/07, 11:34 AM Post subject:

I feel certain that the upper limit in power is pretty much increasing on a daily basis, and I doubt we hear about this on the evening news. Using only a hunch, I would expect that USA, Russia, and Australia are out in front and exchanging the lead in this race. I expect in some serious future conflict, we'll hear about satelites being destroyed, but I doubt we'll hear about how it was done.

carrubi
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Posted: 8/13/07, 6:15 AM Post subject:

I think that we have to worry only about portable laser used by military. For the long distance they have Hydrogen Bomb and missile. Don't forget you can deviate a laser using a mirror.

Adunlevie
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Posted: 8/13/07, 2:19 PM Post subject:

^^^ good point. come to think of it, if the countries start attacking others with lasers, people will start buidling massive networks of prisms around military bases, to carefully disperse the energy of any laser fired at the base, or something like that... but a laser whose power is even measured in PetaWatts is unbelievable! thats kind of frightening, but mostly just really cool!

rafael
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Posted: 8/23/07, 7:40 PM Post subject:

How much would it cost to buy a higher power laser, higher than what wicked sells for, but Less that the elite military gear, but still can be bought by a regular person?

Spyderman
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Posted: 1/18/08, 11:31 PM Post subject:

Just under 1.3 PW, thats PetaWatts Which is 1000 Terrawatts Which in turn is 1000 giga watts and... hopefully you know the rest. _________________ Spyderman II GX Owner of a 5mW green ebayser and a 35mW infiniti

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