Yet in Dolní Břežany, on the outskirts of the Czech capital Prague, the world’s biggest laser is being built by a top international team!
More than 300 scientists and engineers work at the ultra-modern laser research facility in the town.
The estimated cost of the pan-European project is over 270 million euros, most of which comes from the European Regional Development Fund.
The centre is one of three pillars of European laser research, with other centres in Romania and Hungary.
Chief Scientist and Scientific Coordinator for Laser Technology, Bedrich Rus, told Euronews:
“We are building here two lasers, so the peak power of the two lasers we are assembling here is 1 petawatt and 10 petawatts. These are the values which are currently the highest ever obtained by laser technology.”
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