Multi-Terawatt Laser System: A Source of Innovation for Two Decades
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Instability-Seeding Mechanisms Due to Internal Defects in Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
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…
LLE Conesus Supercomputer Ranked One of the World’s Most Powerful
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.…
LLE Collaborates with SUNY Geneseo and Houghton University
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…