megawatt per square centimeter
Intensityexact by definition
The megawatt per square centimetre is exactly 1e10 watts per square metre. It is the scale of laser cutting and welding at focus, of laser-induced damage thresholds on optical coatings, and of the pulsed intensities used in laser ablation and shock peening. The conversion is exact.
Watch out: For a pulsed laser this is a peak intensity, and it says nothing about the average power the optics must survive thermally. A source can deliver megawatts per square centimetre at the peak of a nanosecond pulse while averaging a few watts, which is why coatings are rated on both fluence per pulse and average power.
| 1 | 10,000,000,000 |
One megawatt per square centimeter in every intensity unit
| 1.00000e+16 | microwatt per square meter (μW/m²) | |
| 10,000,000,000,000 | milliwatt per square meter (mW/m²) | |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | microwatt per square centimeter (μW/cm²) | |
| 10,000,000,000 | watt per square meter (W/m²) | |
| 3,169,980,000 | BTU per hour square foot (BTU/(h·ft²)) | |
| 1,000,000,000 | milliwatt per square centimeter (mW/cm²) | |
| 14,340,300 | langley per minute (Ly/min) | |
| 10,000,000 | kilowatt per square meter (kW/m²) | |
| 1,000,000 | watt per square centimeter (W/cm²) | |
| 1 | megawatt per square centimeter (MW/cm²)this unit |
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