From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2006 - 22:44:30 PDT
It's a lot of power, but not a lot of energy. 10 E +6 watts x 10 E-7 seconds =
0.1 Joules... enough to heat 1 gram of water 0.1 degrees C.
I'd not expect much (i.e. none) metal melting out of this puppy.
-John
Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
> It arrived!!
>
> 1 million watts I can hold in my hand!
>
> http://www.bunkerofdoom.com/laser/TEACO2/index.html
>
> So, 1,000,000 watts, concentrated on a spot 1 cm square, for about 100
> nanoseconds. A loud clap and sparks should fly? Anyone ever mess with
> a pulsed laser like this before?
>
> PJ
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