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*** One type actually based on lasers uses a piece of video software called a “glint detector” for targetting. Linked together with an appropriate laser, it allows any number of lensed devices (such as cameras… Or [[Eye Scream|eyeballs]]) within view for hundreds of feet to be instantly detected and burned out.
* The largest laser ever created, consisting of focused beams from 192 individual lasers, will be used at the National Ignition Facility in California to attempt to finally achieve break-even nuclear fusion.[https://lasers.llnl.gov/ Details.]
** If completed, the Extreme Light Infrastructure can even outperform NIF, since it can have its peak power in exawatt range, and should be powerful enough to ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101061517/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8857154/Worlds-most-powerful-laser-to-tear-apart-the-vacuum-of-space.html tear apart the vacuum of space-time itself]''!
* Lawrence Livermore laboratories used to have a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120915212555/https://www.llnl.gov/str/Petawatt.html Petawatt laser], which could produce over 10<sup>15</sup> Watts of power at the instant of its peak output. The pulse was so brief, however, it only produced about 600 Joules of total energy.
* Still think the plasma cannon is sci-fi fantasy? Check out [[wikipedia:Shiva Star|Shiva Star]], an experimental accelerator the can fire toroids of plasma at 3% the speed of light and pummel targets with electronics-frying x-rays.
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