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The US has a new most powerful laser
Hitting 2 petawatts, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at U-M enables research that could improve medicine, national security, materials science and more.Six faculty receive 2025 Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award
These six research scientists helped design, build, and implement the ZEUS laser facility, which is the highest power laser in the U.S.John Nees earns U-M Research Faculty Achievement Award
Nees has been a key contributor to the many ultrafast and high science advancements accomplished at the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences.University of Michigan unveils new super powerful laser
In this video, John Nees and Gerard Mourou talk about the ZEUS laser and the 30-year journey to achieve the three-petawatt laser (100x the world grid power, says Nees). The laser is open to researchers around the world.UMich research lab houses most powerful laser in the U.S., tests for future studies
The Michigan Daily features ZEUS, the new laser system at CUOS, which is the most powerful laser in the U.S.Univ. of Michigan’s ZEUS will be most powerful laser in US
ZEUS is a 3 petawatt laser. And “3 petawatts is 3,000 times more powerful than the U.S. power grid,” said Louise Willingale, Assoc. Director of the laser facility.First light soon at the most powerful laser in the US
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