That means that although the laser's electrical input is about the amount needed to run a bedsidelamp, an individual pulse has an intensity of several million watts.
The bed seemed the perfect place to curl up with a book in the evening (the suites are blessedly sans televisions), but the dim lighting, which so added to the cabinlike feel earlier, and the weak bedsidelamp made reading a spine-curving challenge (my only complaint about the suite).