Station of Extreme Light

The Station of Extreme Light (SEL) is laser facility aimed at producing a laser with 100 petawatts (PW) of peak power. The station is currently under construction in Shanghai, China. The laser will be powerful enough to reach the Schwinger limit, which could allow it to produce matter and antimatter directly from the vacuum of space.
Upon completion, the laser will be the most powerful on Earth, 10,000 times the power of all the world’s electrical grids combined, and 10 trillion times more intense than sunlight. The facility will be completed in 2025 and will be able to provide focused intensity of more than 1023W/cm2.