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National Report Supports Measurement Innovation to Aid Commercial Fusion Energy and Enable New Plasma Technologies

A newly published report on a DOE-sponsored Basic Research Needs Workshop on Measurement Innovation—led by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s (PPPL) Luis Delgado-Aparicio and LLE’s Sean Regan, with guidance from Curt…

BHx diagnostic on table in the Diagnostics Evaluation Lab.

The BHx Streak Tube: Enabling the Next Generation of Streak Cameras

February 23, 2026

Over the last several years, scientists and engineers at LLE have been developing the BHx streak tube, a cutting-edge instrument designed to capture changes in light on a trillionth-of-a-second timescale.…

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Ioannis Pagiazitis’s Paper Selected as Editor’s Pick in Physics of Plasmas

February 4, 2026

Congratulations to LLE graduate student and Horton Fellow Ioannis Pagiazitis and coauthors Nathaniel Shaffer and Suxing Hu, whose paper “Path Integral Molecular Dynamics: A High-Fidelity Approach to Quantum Dynamics…

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Powering Discovery Through Academic Partnerships

December 1, 2025

Scientific discovery thrives when expertise and resources come together. At the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), collaboration is not just a practice—it is the foundation for advancing…

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A Milestone Achievement: Omega Laser Facility’s 50,000th Shot

November 17, 2025

On October 28, 2025, the Omega Laser Facility, operated at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), surpassed 50,000 target shots. The facility houses the largest lasers…

Grating Compressor Chamber (GCC) optics in the MTW-OPAL laser facility on Monday, September 18, 2023.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Di Piazza, International Team Win Prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for Quantum Research

November 14, 2025

Antonino Di Piazza, Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester and distinguished scientist at LLE, is part of an international collaboration that has been awarded a prestigious €14M European…

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Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Danae Polsin Receives 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award

November 5, 2025

LLE is pleased to announce that Danae Polsin, LLE Staff Scientist and URochester Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received the American Physical Society’s 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award…

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Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Alex Chin Awarded 2026 GCCM Student and Dissertation Research Award by APS

November 4, 2025

Congratulations to David Alex Chin, who was recently selected by the American Physical Society (APS) as the winner of the 2026 GCCM (Topical Group on Compression of Condensed Matter) Student…

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Chirped-Pulse Amplification at 40

October 29, 2025

From Student Research to Global Impact This year marks the fortieth anniversary of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA), a groundbreaking laser technology first developed at LLE in the 1980s. Invented by then-graduate…

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Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

LLE Scientist David Turnbull Receives APS Fellowship

October 10, 2025

We are pleased to announce that LLE Scientist David Turnbull was recently selected by the Council of Representatives of the American Physical Society (APS) to become an APS Fellow. This…

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A Successful Summer for the 2025 Undergraduate Education Program

September 22, 2025

Launched in January 2023, LLE’s Undergraduate Education Program was created to address the critical need for workforce development highlighted by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and many other government…

BEST 2025 participants.

BEST Program Celebrates Five Years of Inspiring STEM Futures

September 3, 2025

LLE’s Broad Exposure to Science and Technology (BEST) High School Program marked its fifth year this past summer 2025. Designed to provide students and teachers from the Rochester City School…