Jena laser system sets another world record

POLARIS is the world's most powerful fully diode-pumped laser system, which produces the world's highest-performing laser pulses. A team of physicists under the leadership of Prof. Dr Malte Kaluza at the Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics has now improved POLARIS' performance significantly. For the first time, the laser has produced pulses delivering an energy of more than 50 Joules, which is more than three times as high as before.