The ZEUS multi-petawatt laser system

A. Maksimchuk; J. Nees; B. Hou; R. Anthony; J. Bae; F. Bayer; M. Burger; P. T. Campbell; J. Cardarelli; V. Contreras; N. Ernst; F. Falcoz; R. Fitzgarrald; I. Jovanovic; G. Kalinchenko; C. Kuranz; J. Latham; Y. Ma; A. McKelvey; T. Nutting; Q. Qian; B. K. Russell; G. Sucha; A. G.R. Thomas; R. Van Camp; E. Viges; L. Willingale; G. Young; Q. Zhang; K. Krushelnick

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The ZEUS multi-petawatt laser system

A. Maksimchuk, J. Nees, B. Hou, R. Anthony, J. Bae, F. Bayer, M. Burger, P. T. Campbell, J. Cardarelli, V. Contreras, N. Ernst, F. Falcoz, R. Fitzgarrald, I. Jovanovic, G. Kalinchenko, C. Kuranz, J. Latham, Y. Ma, A. McKelvey, T. NuttingQ. Qian, B. K. Russell, G. Sucha, A. G.R. Thomas, R. Van Camp, E. Viges, L. Willingale, G. Young, Q. Zhang, K. Krushelnick

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Abstract

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 2PW 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.

Original language	English
Article number	103107
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	32
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0283440
State	Published - Oct 1 2025
Externally published	Yes

Funding

The ZEUS facility construction and operation is supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Nos. 1935950 and 2126181, as well as by the AFOSR Grant No. FA9550-22-1-0118 and the University of Michigan.

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Maksimchuk, A., Nees, J., Hou, B., Anthony, R., Bae, J., Bayer, F., Burger, M., Campbell, P. T., Cardarelli, J., Contreras, V., Ernst, N., Falcoz, F., Fitzgarrald, R., Jovanovic, I., Kalinchenko, G., Kuranz, C., Latham, J., Ma, Y., McKelvey, A., ... Krushelnick, K. (2025). The ZEUS multi-petawatt laser system. Physics of Plasmas, 32(10), Article 103107. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0283440

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