Station of Extreme Light

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.

[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.

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