Science and Technology Archives - Laboratory for Laser Energetics

An artistic depiction of an accretion disk and an image of a simulation.

OMEGA 60-Beam Laser System Helps Shed Light onto Black Hole Accretion Disks

October 8, 2024

Photograph of MTW target chamber in the foreground and researcher in clean room gear in the top left background.

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Multi-Terawatt Laser System: A Source of Innovation for Two Decades

August 27, 2024

This summer marked the 20th anniversary of the first shot of the Multi-Terawatt (MTW) Laser System on July 26, 2004. The shot checked the performance of the 15-cm disk amplifier…

Top: The Density-Functional Theory (DFT) coding team members. Bottom: a simulation of a 3s orbital of krypton.

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New Density-Functional Theory Code MELIORA Released by LLE’s High-Energy-Density-Physics Theory Group

The density-functional theory (DFT) coding team, led by University of Rochester Department of Mechanical Engineering PhD student John Cappelletti (advised by Prof. Suxing Hu), has created a finite-element-based DFT code…

An illustration of a proton impinges Carbon and Tantalum atoms creating a shower of particles with turns into a fireball with a starry background.

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International Team Develops a Novel Way to Produce Plasma “Fireballs” on Earth

For the first time ever, an international team of scientists, including LLE Division Director for Plasma and Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Dustin Froula, staff scientist Daniel Haberberger, and other…

Group photograph of Neel Kabadi, Mokin Lee, Edban Watt, Alex Kulvivat, Julie Hernandez, and Adam Cummings on the East Lobby staircase, a colorful illustration with an image of a diagnostic.

New Diagnostic Platform for OMEGA EP Established by Team of Undergraduate Students

A team of five undergraduate seniors from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Rochester performed the design and fabrication of original parts needed for the BBReflect-EP shot day…

Three researchers looking through a drilled hole in the wall.

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The FLUX Beam Transport Project

The FLUX Beam Transport Project (FP9T) is a subproject of the overall FLUX Project. FP9T is tasked with providing a safe beam-transport path from the FLUX facility in Room 5101…

Computer simulation image with primarily blue image on the left and gray/green on the right, with a white.

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Instability-Seeding Mechanisms Due to Internal Defects in Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets

January 22, 2024

Performance degradation in laser-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions is caused by several effects, one of which is Rayleigh–Taylor instability growth. Degradation caused by target defects has been a central…

Photograph of Erie Supercomputer Storage System.

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LLE Conesus Supercomputer Ranked One of the World’s Most Powerful

October 13, 2023

A new supercomputer housed at the University of Rochester will make it possible for researchers to simulate complex high-energy-density phenomena in inertial confinement fusion in three dimensions with unprecedented details.…

Figure showing XRD data captured on x-ray framing camera.

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First Time-Resolved Diffraction Measurements Made on OMEGA EP

September 18, 2023

Group photo of researchers on top and schematic figure of their research on the bottom.

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LLE Collaborates with SUNY Geneseo and Houghton University

September 4, 2023

The nuclear science community has an increased interest in the structure of light nuclei and their interactions at energies approaching 1 MeV. Many of these reactions have been previously measured…

Beam delay extender installed.

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Beam Delay Extender to Support Hydro Growth Radiography Experiments

In February 2021, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) made a request to LLE to add an additional 4 ns of beam delay to ten specific beamlines on OMEGA in support…

Research team group photo on top with Fresnel zone plate below left and x-ray pinhole camera chassis below right.

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Advancing Flow Visualization at Ultrahigh Pressure

Shock-induced hydrodynamics research at the Omega Laser Facility is advancing flow visualization at ultrahigh pressures. A new laser-driven radiography platform has been implemented for acquiring multiple x-ray backlit images of…