List of petawatt lasers

This page contains a list of petawatt-level lasers in operation, under construction, or proposed. The list is compiled from existing academic reviews.{{Cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Zhaoyang |last2=Leng |first2=Yuxin |last3=Li |first3=Ruxin |date=2022 |title=Further Development of the Short-Pulse Petawatt Laser: Trends, Technologies, and Bottlenecks |journal=Laser & Photonics Reviews |volume=17 |issue=3 |doi=10.1002/lpor.202100705|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Danson |first1=Colin N. |last2=Haefner |first2=Constantin |display-authors=1 |date=2019 |title=Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide |journal=High Power Laser Science and Engineering |volume=7 |pages=e54 |doi=10.1017/hpl.2019.36|bibcode=2019HPLSE...7E..54D }}

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!Facility

!Institution

!Location

!Classification

!Pulse energy [J]

!Pulse duration [fs]

!Peak power [PW]

!Status

Nova

|Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

|{{flag|United States}}

|Nd:glass

|660

|440

|1.5

|Decommissioned

NIF-ARC

|Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

|{{flag|United States}}

|Nd:glass

|400–1700

|1300–38 000

|1.5

|Operation

Texas Petawatt Laser{{Cite journal |last1=Gaul |first1=Erhard W. |last2=Martinez |first2=Mikael |display-authors=1 |date=2010 |title=Demonstration of a 1.1 petawatt laser based on a hybrid optical parametric chirped pulse amplification/mixed Nd:glass amplifier |journal=Applied Optics |volume=49 |issue=9 |pages=1676–1681 |doi=10.1364/AO.49.001676|pmid=20300167 |bibcode=2010ApOpt..49.1676G }}{{cite web | title=Texas Petawatt Laser |publisher= The University of Texas at Austin| url=https://texaspetawatt.ph.utexas.edu/ | access-date=5 February 2025}}

|University of Texas, Austin

|{{flag|United States}}

|Nd:glass

|186

|167

|1.1

|Operation

Z-PW

|Sandia National Laboratories

|{{flag|United States}}

|Nd:glass

|500

|Operation

rowspan="2" |ZEUS

| rowspan="2" |University of Michigan

| rowspan="2" |{{flag|United States}}

| rowspan="2" |Nd:glass

|75

|25

| rowspan="2" |Commission

12.5

|25

|0.5

SG-II-PW{{Cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=Guang |last2=Wang |first2=Tao |last3=Li |first3=Zhaoyang |last4=Dai |first4=Yaping |last5=Lin |first5=Zunqi |last6=Gu |first6=Yuan |last7=Zhu |first7=Jianqiang |date=2008 |title=1 kJ Petawatt Laser System for SG-II-U Program |journal=The Review of Laser Engineering |volume=36 |pages=1172–1175 |doi=10.2184/lsj.36.1172}}

|Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOM)

|{{flag|China}}

|Nd:glass

|1000

|Operation

Vulcan

|Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|Nd:glass

|500

|Operation

Orion

|Atomic Weapons Establishment

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|Nd:glass

|500

|Operation

PHELIX

|GSI Helmholtz

|{{flag|Germany}}

|Nd:glass

|250

|400

|0.625

|Operation

LMJ-PETAL

|CEA Cesta

|{{flag|France}}

|Nd:glass

|850

|700

|1.15

|Operation

GEKKO XII-LFEX

|Osaka University

|{{flag|Japan}}

|Nd:glass

|3000

|1500

|Operation

ELI-B L4

|Extreme Light Infrastructure

|{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|Nd:glass

|1500

|150

|10

|Construction

ELI-NP

|Extreme Light Infrastructure

|{{flag|Romania}}

|Ti:sapphire

|242

|22.3

|10.9

|Operation

ELI-B L2

|Extreme Light Infrastructure

|{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|Ti:sapphire

|20

|Operation

ELI-B L3 HAPLS

|Extreme Light Infrastructure

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

|{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|Ti:sapphire

|30

|1 at 10 Hz

|Operation

SULF

|SIOM

ShanghaiTech University

|{{flag|China}}

|Ti:sapphire

|216

|21

|10.3

|Operation

XL-III

|Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science

|{{flag|China}}

|Ti:sapphire

|32

|28

|1.16

|Operation

CAEP-PW{{Cite journal |last1=Zeng |first1=Xiaoming |last2=Zhou |first2=Kainan |display-authors=1 |date=2017 |title=Multi-petawatt laser facility fully based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification |journal=Optics Letters |volume=42 |issue=10 |pages=2014–2017 |doi=10.1364/OL.42.002014|pmid=28504737 |bibcode=2017OptL...42.2014Z }}

|China Academy of Engineering Physics

|{{flag|China}}

|Ti:sapphire

|91.1

|18.6

|4.9

|Operation

SG-II-5 PW{{Cite journal |last1=Zhu |first1=Jianqiang |last2=Xie |first2=Xinglong |display-authors=1 |date=2018 |title=Analysis and construction status of SG-II 5PW laser facility |journal=High Power Laser Science and Engineering |volume=6 |pages=e29 |doi=10.1017/hpl.2018.23 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2018HPLSE...6E..29Z }}

|SIOM

|{{flag|China}}

|Ti:sapphire

|37

|21

|1.76

|Operation

SEL-100 PW{{Cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=Dirui |last2=Shen |first2=Baifei |last3=Xu |first3=Jiancai |last4=Liang |first4=Zhenfeng |date=2020 |title=XFEL beamline design for vacuum birefringence experiment |journal=Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A |volume=982 |pages=164553 |doi=10.1016/j.nima.2020.164553|bibcode=2020NIMPA.98264553X }}

|Shanghai High Repetition Rate XEFL and Extreme Light Facility

|{{flag|China}}

|Ti:sapphire

|1500

|15

|100

|Construction

Gwangju-PW

|Centre for Relativistic Laser Science

|{{flag|South Korea}}

|Ti:sapphire

|83

|19.4

|4.2

|Operation

BELLA

|Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

|{{flag|United States}}

|Ti:sapphire

|40

|30

|1.3

|Operation

ALEPH

|Colorado State University

|{{flag|United States}}

|Ti:sapphire

|26

|30

|0.87 at 3.3 Hz

|Operation

DIOCLES

|University of Nebraska-Lincoln

|{{flag|United States}}

|Ti:sapphire

|20

|30

|0.7

|Operation

NSF OPAL

|Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

|{{flag|United States}}

|Ti:sapphire

|25

|Planned

J-KAREN

|National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology

|{{flag|Japan}}

|Ti:sapphire

|28/30

|33/30

|0.85/1

|Operation

Gemini

|Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

|{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|Ti:sapphire

|15

|30

|0.5

|Operation

VEGA-3

|University of Salamanca

|{{flag|Spain}}

|Ti:sapphire

|30

|1 at 1 Hz

|Operation

DRACO

|Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

|{{flag|Germany}}

|Ti:sapphire

|30

|Operation

ATLAS

|Technical University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

|{{flag|Germany}}

|Ti:sapphire

|60

|25

|2.4

|Construction

Apollon

|CNRS

École polytechnique

|{{flag|France}}

|Ti:sapphire

|150

|15

|10

|Construction

CETAL

|INFLPR

|{{flag|Romania}}

|Ti:sapphire

|25

|Operation

RRCAT

|Raja Ramana Centre for Advanced Technology

|{{Flag|India}}

|Ti:sapphire

|25

|Construction

PEARL

|Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

|{{flag|Russia}}

|Ti:sapphire

|18

|55–67 (10)a)

|0.25–0.3 (1.5)a)

|Operation

References

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