# 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.
| Facility | Institution | Location | Classification | Pulse energy [J] | Pulse duration [fs] | Peak power [PW] | Status |
| Nova | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | United States | Nd:glass | 660 | 440 | 1.5 | Decommissioned |
| NIF-ARC | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | United States | Nd:glass | 400–1700 | 1300–38 000 | 1.5 | Operation |
| Texas Petawatt Laser | University of Texas, Austin | United States | Nd:glass | 186 | 167 | 1.1 | Operation |
| Z-PW | Sandia National Laboratories | United States | Nd:glass | 500 | 500 | 1 | Operation |
| ZEUS | University of Michigan | United States | Nd:glass | 75 | 25 | 3 | Commission |
| ZEUS | University of Michigan | United States | Nd:glass | 12.5 | 25 | 0.5 | Commission |
| SG-II-PW | Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOM) | China | Nd:glass | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | Operation |
| Vulcan | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | United Kingdom | Nd:glass | 500 | 500 | 1 | Operation |
| Orion | Atomic Weapons Establishment | United Kingdom | Nd:glass | 500 | 500 | 1 | Operation |
| PHELIX | GSI Helmholtz | Germany | Nd:glass | 250 | 400 | 0.625 | Operation |
| LMJ-PETAL | CEA Cesta | France | Nd:glass | 850 | 700 | 1.15 | Operation |
| GEKKO XII-LFEX | Osaka University | Japan | Nd:glass | 3000 | 1500 | 2 | Operation |
| ELI-B L4 | Extreme Light Infrastructure | Czech Republic | Nd:glass | 1500 | 150 | 10 | Construction |
| ELI-NP | Extreme Light Infrastructure | Romania | Ti:sapphire | 242 | 22.3 | 10.9 | Operation |
| ELI-B L2 | Extreme Light Infrastructure | Czech Republic | Ti:sapphire | 20 | 20 | 1 | Operation |
| ELI-B L3 HAPLS | Extreme Light Infrastructure Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Czech Republic  United States | Ti:sapphire | 30 | 30 | 1 at 10 Hz | Operation |
| SULF | SIOM ShanghaiTech University | China | Ti:sapphire | 216 | 21 | 10.3 | Operation |
| XL-III | Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science | China | Ti:sapphire | 32 | 28 | 1.16 | Operation |
| CAEP-PW | China Academy of Engineering Physics | China | Ti:sapphire | 91.1 | 18.6 | 4.9 | Operation |
| SG-II-5 PW | SIOM | China | Ti:sapphire | 37 | 21 | 1.76 | Operation |
| SEL-100 PW | Shanghai High Repetition Rate XEFL and Extreme Light Facility | China | Ti:sapphire | 1500 | 15 | 100 | Construction |
| Gwangju-PW | Centre for Relativistic Laser Science | South Korea | Ti:sapphire | 83 | 19.4 | 4.2 | Operation |
| BELLA | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | United States | Ti:sapphire | 40 | 30 | 1.3 | Operation |
| ALEPH | Colorado State University | United States | Ti:sapphire | 26 | 30 | 0.87 at 3.3 Hz | Operation |
| DIOCLES | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | United States | Ti:sapphire | 20 | 30 | 0.7 | Operation |
| NSF OPAL | Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester | United States | Ti:sapphire | | | 25 | Planned |
| J-KAREN | National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology | Japan | Ti:sapphire | 28/30 | 33/30 | 0.85/1 | Operation |
| Gemini | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | United Kingdom | Ti:sapphire | 15 | 30 | 0.5 | Operation |
| VEGA-3 | University of Salamanca | Spain | Ti:sapphire | 30 | 30 | 1 at 1 Hz | Operation |
| DRACO | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf | Germany | Ti:sapphire | 30 | 30 | 1 | Operation |
| ATLAS | Technical University of Munich Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | Germany | Ti:sapphire | 60 | 25 | 2.4 | Construction |
| Apollon | CNRS École polytechnique | France | Ti:sapphire | 150 | 15 | 10 | Construction |
| CETAL | INFLPR | Romania | Ti:sapphire | 25 | 25 | 1 | Operation |
| RRCAT | Raja Ramana Centre for Advanced Technology | India | Ti:sapphire | 25 | 25 | 1 | Construction |
| PEARL | Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Ti:sapphire | 18 | 55–67 (10)a) | 0.25–0.3 (1.5)a) | Operation |