Most powerful terahertz laser chip created - 2x more powerful than MIT's chip last year

University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world’s most powerful terahertz laser chip.

A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds team has exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser.

The new record more than doubles landmarks set by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently by a team from Vienna last year.