Laser Records

The laser projected to more intense
It is the Vulcan, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire (England). After his improvement, completed in 2002, can produce a laser beam irradiation with an intensity approach 1,021 vaiios per cm2.

The highest altitude achieved by a device powered laser is 71 m. On October 2, 2000, Lighicraft Technologies (USA) managed to raise to 71 m, only with light, an artifact of 12.2 cm in diameter and 51 grams of weight.
To that end, fired from the ground to a laser device of carbon dioxide from 20 kilowatts U.S. military. The consequent expansion of air heated prompted the apparatus.
These tests took place at the shooting range missile White Sands in New Mexico (USA).