DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Xcimer Energy today announced the start of operations for Phoenix, the largest privately owned laser system in the world and the company’s prototype for commercializing laser fusion. Phoenix, housed in Xcimer’s 74,000-square-foot Denver laser facility, is a proof of concept for an unconventional fusion architecture: a krypton fluoride (KrF) excimer laser using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) to compress a microsecond-long pulse into the nanosecond timescales fusio