The NIF will be powerful enough to even allow us to explore the inner workings of stars. The EBIT and Super-EBIT facilities at LLNL enable a wide range of physics experiments in relativity, quantum electrodynamics, plasma physics, and surface physics. Sophisticated, high-speed measurements are used to study the behavior of these materials. Omega is a 60-beam laser at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics . It has a peak power of 60 terawatts and total energy of 40 kilojoules in 700 picosecond pulses.
Omega is currently the world's most powerful laser.
A range of hydrodynamic experiments are performed at these facilities. The rapid time scales that result from plasmas created by femtosecond lasers drive new technologies to investigate these new physics regimes.