Central Laser Facility is one of the world’s leading laser facilities, its high power lasers can recreate the conditions inside stars while its small, compact lasers have medical, security and environmental applications.

UPHILL houses two state-of-the-art intense laser facilities – (a) a 20 terawatt and (b) an ultrahigh-contrast 100 terawatt chirped-pulse-amplified titanium-doped sapphire laser, that deliver joule-energy pulses of 30-femtoseconds pulsewidth centered at a wavelength of 800 nm and operating at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The peak intensities that can be generated are typically 1018 – 1019 W/cm2.