Science and Technology

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…

The U.S. Department of Energy announced that researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility for the first time carried out a nuclear fusion reaction that achieved ignition, producing…

Joint theoretical and experimental x-ray spectroscopy research on how radiation is generated and transported in dense plasmas, led by Suxing Hu and Philip Nilson, provides new insight into the behavior…

In 2017, a team of LLE scientists and engineers began working on a project to define a new laser with the spectral bandwidth required to mitigate laser–plasma instabilities (LPI’s). The…

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Ray Smith and Samantha Clarke, along with Kimberly Bolduc, an undergraduate from the University of Massachusetts-Amhurst, measured the crystal structure and density evolution of FeNi at Earth…

In collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), LLE scientists and engineers are developing coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) to characterize the initial microscopic bulk and surface defects in layered…

A midscale plasma-electrode Pockels cell (PEPC) has been developed for the fourth-generation laser for ultra-broadband experiments (FLUX). The PEPC switches the polarization of a laser pulse to trap it for…

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the University of Rochester and Stanford University have reached an agreement for LLE to provide a state-of-the-art laser for an upgrade to the…

The Infrared OMEGA Transport Instrumentation System (IR-OTIS) is a recently commissioned power balance diagnostic on the OMEGA Laser System. It is used to measure the transmission through each section of…

The Fourth generation Laser for Ultrabroadband eXperiments (FLUX) is one of the potential paths to the increased-bandwidth, next-generation inertial confinement fusion drivers that will enable higher coupling efficiencies. This system…