Publications Archives - Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Liquid Crystal Plasma Mirrors: A Breakthrough for NSF OPAL

Researchers at LLE and The Ohio State University (OSU) have teamed together to develop renewable, liquid crystal plasma mirrors (LCPMs) to enhance the temporal contrast of the 25-PW pulses planned…

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A Gentle Puff with a Big Impact: A New System Advances Cryogenic Target Technology

A new gas puffer system (GPS) is transforming how fusion scientists fill cryogenic targets, turning precise whiffs of deuterium gas into liquid fuel and opening the door to next-generation “wetted-foam”…

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Valentin Karasiev’s Paper Selected as Editor’s Pick in Physics of Plasmas

Congratulations to LLE staff scientist Valentin Karasiev and coauthors Suxing Hu, Katerina Hilleke, Ammar Ellaboudy, Deyan Mihaylov, and Samuel Trickey, whose paper “Thermal Exchange-Correlation Functionals: Capturing Quantum Electron Behavior…

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FLUX: A Next-Generation Broadband Laser for Direct-Drive Fusion Experiments

A Next-Generation Broadband Laser for Direct-Drive Fusion Experiments A New Laser Concept to Mitigate Laser–Plasma Instabilities Achieving fusion in the laboratory has proven a grand challenge of science. At its…