brightest light

UT owns world's most powerful laser

Daily Texan  Wed, 04/09/2008 - 11:00pm

UT houses a laser, nestled in a cramped basement room, that created the brightest light in the universe for fractions of a second March 31, beaming the University into the international spotlight.



 

UT to have the most powerful laser ever -- literally

That Other Paper  Thu, 12/20/2007 - 2:15pm

photo / Guillermo Ruiz de LoizagaDon’t let the sharks have it  Congress has decided to fund a University of Texas at Austin project of building the world’s most powerful laser, which will have power exceeding 1,000 trillion watts and will be able to deliver the brightest light in the universe.

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