Publications Archives - Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Illustration of lasers interacting with lenses.

Jeremy Pigeon and Team Publish New Flying-Focus Research in Nature Communications

LLE is thrilled to announce the publication of new research by scientist Jeremy Pigeon and coauthors in Nature Communications. His article, “Spatiotemporal Shaping of Terahertz Radiation Produced by a Two-Color…

Black and white image of Donna Strickland and Gerard Mourou.

Chirped-Pulse Amplification at 40

LLE’s Nobel-Winning Innovation that Revolutionized Laser Science Introduction Forty years ago, when then-LLE graduate student Donna Strickland was racing to submit her very first scientific research paper outlining a new…

The OMEGA target chamber at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Celebrating 30 Years of OMEGA

An Enduring Legacy of Leadership and Innovation LLE’s Omega Laser Facility, the largest laser facility at any academic institution in the world and a premier high-energy-density science research center, is…

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Ever Better: Stories of Learning and Collaboration at LLE

During his doctoral studies at LLE, David Bishel remembers asking a senior scientist about a problem he was struggling with. Without hesitation, the scientist invited David over to his office…

Artistic interpretation of Flying Focus, two blue rings and an orange ring with waves of blue and orange.

Flying Focus Enables a New Regime of Laser-Plasma Acceleration

Congratulations to LLE Assistant Scientist Charlie Arrowsmith and his coauthors, a team of scientists from the PULSE (Plasma & Ultrafast Laser Science & Engineering) Division and Laser Development Group, on…

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Igumenshchev Paper on Wetted-Foam Target Stability Selected as Editor’s Pick in Physics of Plasmas

Congratulations to LLE senior scientist Igor Igumenshchev and coauthors Alexander Shvydky, Valeri Goncharov, Andrey Solodov, Adrien Pineau, Riccardo Betti, and Jim Knauer, whose paper “Wetted-Foam Target Stability for Laser-Direct-Drive Inertial…

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The Opportunity of a Lifetime

Students Gain Rare Access to Some of the Countryʼs Leading Science Facilities For most undergraduates, national laboratories exist only as names on research papers or distant career possibilities. This past…

The OMEGA target chamber at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Fusion Science for High-Yield Applications

Current Status of Inertial Confinement Fusion Research December 5, 2022, marked a major milestone for humankind. On this day, a team led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used the…

Image of a computer-simulated image of an imploding capsule and a graph on the right depicting GFLOPs of new High-Performance Computing Systems at LLE by Year.

Simulation Impossible

Inside the Computational Science Infrastructure Driving LLE’s Research Much of the most important work at LLE happens not just in a lab but on a computer, where plasma behaviors are…

Streaked spectrometer image showing the ripple-like pattern produced by SSD wavelength modulation (wavelength versus time, with color indicating intensity).

Beam Smoothing for Picket-Pulse Fusion Experiments

How Spectral Dispersion and Timing Improve Irradiation Uniformity on OMEGA The OMEGA Laser System is designed to deliver laser energy as uniformly as possible to a spherical target using 60…

US IFE Conference Focuses a National Effort

More than 225 members of the US inertial fusion energy (IFE) community gathered in the Washington, DC, area on March 22–27 for the second annual US IFE Conference, formerly IFE-STAR.…

New Publication by David Turnbull in Physical Review Letters

Congratulations to LLE scientists David Turnbull and coauthors Avi Milder, Russ Follett, Joe Katz, and Dustin Froula, whose paper “Thomson Scattering with Gain” has recently been published in Physical…