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Téramobile, the guided lightning

Reference

1747

Duration

00:17:00

Production year

2006

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4/3
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Summary

The French-German project Téramobile permitted to build a unique mobile high-voltage laser. The produced energy is concentrated during a very brief moment, and the power of this laser is exceptionally huge: 5 terawatts.
In June 2001, at the Institute for Experimental Physics located in Berlin, Jean-Pierre Wolf, a CNRS researcher, tested an application of this laser: the lighting guidance.

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