Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses

Very cool stuff, and this snippet really blew my mind:

At its peak it generates 100 terawatts – equivalent to five times the average power consumption of the world – although only for a few millionth of a billionth of a second.

It's refreshing to see news about awesome sci-fi-esque tech that is in the application phase with some really cool experiments lined up.

The custom-built laser system, called the Light Wave Synthesizer 100

Man they really missed the mark with the name...you always use numbers in the thousands! Light Wave Synthesizer 3000 sound so much cooler