Quick Shots

Scientists examining data from an OMEGA EP shot
Four beamlines of OMEGA EP firing during a target shot
Seung-Whan Bahk, Matthew Barczys, Mike Spilatro
Dr. Cerulli and Dr. Jie Qiao
Illuminated image of probe diagnostic
Brittany Taylor positioning a circular polarization rotator
Emily Armstrong, Brian Kruschwitz, and Matthew Barczys
Alexei Kozlov, Semyon Papernov, Brittany Taylor, Andrey Okishev in New Damage Test Facility

New Damage Test Facility

Staging Cryogenic Targets; Desiree Bouwens securing one of the carts and Matt Maslyn preparing for the next cryogenic campaign

Staging Cryogenic Targets

Attendees of 2012 OSA and APS meetings tour
Engineer Raymond Huff characterizing probe laser beam at a relay image plane of target chamber center
Scientist mounting cryogenic targets
Christa Caggiano holding a photoaligned liquid crystal device she made that converts linearly polarized light to radially polarized light
A NIF phase plate is being characterized within this test facility by Jo Bunkenburg and Charles Kellogg.
Scott Hylas (left) and Mark Bowman (right) examine large UV-beam reflecting mirrors
Aimee Owens with her advisor, Tanya Kosc, at a liquid crystal circular polarizer (LCP) identifying and testing possible degradation mechanisms
Rick Roides and Christophe Dorrer at the Ultrafast Optical Parametric Amplifier in the Laser Development Laboratory
Riccardo Betti Honored with DOE Award from Steven Chu
Multiple-FM Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion (Multi-FM SSD)
NIF Preamplifier Module (NIF PAM)
Multilayer-Dielectric Diffraction Gratings; Heather Howard
Attendees of the OLUG 2012 workshop
Josh Reindl accessing the flash lamps in one of the sixty beamlines

Maintaining OMEGA

OMEGA electron spectrometer