Lithuanian, American and Czech scientists to build the world’s most powerful laser
Lithuanian and American Ambassadors in Prague Aurimas Taurantas and Andrew H. Shapiro, together with Mr. Kęstutis Jasiūnas, the CEO of a Lithuanian laser manufacturing company Ekspla, and American and Czech partners participated in the signing ceremony of a contract to develop an ultra-intense laser system for the European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines facility (ELI-Beamlines) on October 6 in Prague. It will be the largest laser system of its kind in the world.
The project will be implemented by the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in cooperation with a Consortium of National Energetics from the USA, and Ekspla, a company from Lithuania. The Consortium won the $40 million valued contract to develop and install the ultra-intense laser system near Prague in the Czech Republic.
This laser system will be even 10 times more powerful than the ones that have been developed so far. It will be used for research in plasma and high-energy-density physics, particle acceleration, also in molecular, biomedicine, and material sciences.
According to the experts who took part in the ceremony, this unique project will open up a new possibility for scientific application of laser technology.
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Photos: Ambassadors of Lithuania and the U.S.A. in Prague congratulate the winners of the project;
K.Jasiūnas, CEO of the company, signs the contract on behalf of Ekspla.
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