kilowatts

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The amplifier developed at Stanford can increase the intensity of a light signal by about 100 times while using only a few hundred milliwatts of power.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

The transmitted power was small, just 200 milliwatts, less than that of a cellphone camera light.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 5, 2023

PlasticARM consumes 21 milliwatts of power, for example, but 99 percent of that is essentially wasted, with only 1 percent captured for computation.

From The Verge • Jul. 23, 2021

By comparison, your laser pointer, which can cause significant damage to your eyes and temporarily blind pilots in planes, is restricted to a trillionth of the power at 5 milliwatts.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2016

The laser, amplified by modern fibre-optic technology, achieves a power of watts — compared with the tens of milliwatts reached by SILEX.

From Nature • Jul. 17, 2013