The world’s largest privately owned laser just turned on | TechCrunch

The world's largest private laser just fired up in race to make fusion power real

Xcimer Energy switched on Phoenix, the world's largest private 1-kilojoule laser, to test commercial laser-driven fusion. Xcimer's architecture—2 beamlines vs NIF's 192—cuts manufacturing costs for grid-scale fusion viability by the mid-2030s.