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The Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) at the University of Michigan has constructed a new high-power laser user facility called ZEUS (the Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort Pulse Laser System), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). ZEUS currently operates at a power exceeding 2 petawatts, with a pulse duration of 25 femtoseconds and a repetition rate of one shot per minute. The facility includes three shielded target areas primarily dedicated to external user experiments. Recent results will be presented on system performance and laser wakefield electron acceleration, which has produced electron beams with energies up to 2.5 GeV, as well as on the study of betatron radiation and its application to high-resolution radiography in two energy ranges: 1–25 keV and 25–500 keV.
The ZEUS facility construction and operation is supported by the National Science Foundation under award 1935950 and 2126181, as well as by the AFOSR grant number FA9550- 22-1-0118 and the University of Michigan.
