BEAMS OF HOPE - What Can Lasers Do for You? | Allen Weeks x Brain Bar

What happens when you compress fifty times the entire planet's power output into a single beam of light, just for a fraction of a second? Allen Weeks, Director General of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), takes the Brain Bar audience inside the world of the most powerful lasers ever built, all the way to the ELI ALPS research facility in Szeged, Hungary. You'll learn why the highest-power lasers have to be pulsed, how light can be stretched, amplified and compressed using the Nobel Prize winning technique of chirped pulse amplification, and what the attosecond reveals to us about the motion of electrons. Weeks shows how these lasers have quietly become the invisible engine behind everyday life, from eye surgery to manufacturing to quantum technology, and how they could open a new chapter in particle acceleration and muon-beam material scanning. A talk about how light is shaping the future of science and technology. #BrainBar #ELI #laser #science #future #innovation #physics --- About Brain Bar Brain Bar is the world's first futuretainment company. Our objective is to question the status quo, drive discussion and spark debate about the most important questions of our future. Diversity is key for inspiration: that is why we offer a wide variety of topics from business to parenting, from art to technology, from politics to food. Listen to our podcasts, watch our videos, meet us on the biggest European festival on the future... and join the conversation! Follow us: Official website: http://brainbar.com Facebook:   / brainbarofficial   Instagram:   / brainbar   Twitter:   / brainbarcom   LinkedIn:   / brainbar   Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3tl4rI5