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"The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31," Good thing, or they'd feel pretty dumb about the name.
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Everybody's favorite band of SF authors, on the Intenet.
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"Kumar and his team used the fiber-generated indistinguishable photons to implement the most basic quantum computer task - a controlled-NOT gate, which allows two photonic qubits to interact."
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Those folks at Texas must not have read the press release from the University of Michigan back in February.
Michigan claims 300 PW for 30 fs (9 J per pulse).
Texas claims 1 PW for 0.1 ps (0.1 J per pulse).
That's not even close, so they might be feeling really dumb once the PR people at Michigan see that claim in print. Of course, my assumption that PR people read as much as they write could be poor assumption.
By the way, Chad, they have a picture with that press release that belongs in your Lab Porn collection. Check out
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6346
Ooops. My bad. Michigan is only 300 TW. Should read rather than go from memory. The total energy is also wrong due to that mistake: Texas is 100 J per pulse compared to 9 in the Michigan beam.