3 ms·Holy crap, what can you do with kW lasers besides instantly cut almost anything?by xxpor 13y agoHoly crap, what can you do with kW lasers besides instantly cut almost anything?roc 13y agoPopcorn?aidenn0 13y agokW isn't that high for pulsed lasers. Particularly since with Q-switching you can get very short pulses and mode-locking ridiculously short pulses. Total energy for a 1ps pulse at 100kW is negligible.acomar 13y agoYou get some nasty ionization effects with shorter pulses, right? I did some work trying to model a fs pulse laser in college.pbo 13y agoExactly. Since the output is not continuous, the average power remains quite low. This is why you can still power it from regular domestic power :)