The ZEUS multi-petawatt laser system
The Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) at the University of Michigan has constructed a new high-power laser user facility called ZEUS (the Zettawatt Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System), which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The ZEUS currently operates at a power exceeding 2 PW with a pulse duration of 25 fs. The facility has three shielded target areas mainly dedicated to external user experiments. The development of the laser facility, specifically designed to enable frontier plasma physics experiments, is described.
Authors
- Jason Cardarelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2060-494X)
- Igor Jovanovic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0573-3150)
- Y. Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3919-4856)
- Jun Woo Bae
- A. Maksimchuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-7432)
- Tanner Nutting
- G. Sucha
- John Nees (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8277-9123)
- K. Krushelnick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-9511)
- Brandon K. Russell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0011-2419)
- Franck Falcoz
- Joshua Latham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7961-9345)
- L. Willingale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4304-0339)
- G. Kalinchenko
- G.R. Young
- M. Burger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5243-4025)
- Eric Viges
- Rebecca Fitzgarrald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1633-8113)
- Q. Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9320-3127)
- Carolyn Kuranz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0873-1487)
- Andrew McKelvey
- Alexander G. R. Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3206-8512)
- P. T. Campbell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7192-0221)
- Qian Qian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6955-769X)
- Verónica Contreras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0687-9496)
- Florian Bayer
- R. Anthony
- Richard Van Camp
- Bixue Hou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7602-2500)
- Nicholas Ernst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4109-9906)
Institutions
- University of Michigan (US)
- Michigan United (US)
- Amplitude Systèmes (France) (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics of Plasmas
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0283440
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.87