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The chromatic flying focus uses chromatic focusing and chirp to control the focal location and time of each frequency.

LLE Scientists Co-author New Publication in Optica

June 26, 2025

Article by Katie Hilleke Selected as “Editor’s Suggestion” by Physical Review Materials

June 24, 2025

Attendees of the OLUG 2025 Workshop at LLE.

OLUG 2025 Recap: A Cornerstone of the High-Energy-Density Science Community

June 16, 2025

Four headshots in a four panel layout showing Stephen Craxton, Emma Garcia, Patrick McKenty, and Yujia Yang.

2024 Nuclear Fusion Journal Award Recognizes Paper Co-authored by LLE Scientists

June 11, 2025

Photo of Annie Maloney.

Annie Maloney Wins 2025 Stoddard Prize for Best Senior Thesis

May 29, 2025

Victor Zhang and Will Trickey posing in front of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics branding wall.

LLE Scientists Included in the 2024 Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection

March 28, 2025

Petros Tzeferacos.

University of Rochester and LLE Faculty and Collaborator Receive 2025 PECASE Award

January 21, 2025

LLE Launches IFE-STAR Ecosystem, Conference, and Workforce Development Initiatives

January 15, 2025

LLE’s Cryogenic and Tritium Facility Sets New Record in 2024

December 16, 2024

LLE-Sydor-SBIR-Phase II

LLE and Sydor Technologies Awarded $1.15M DOE Phase II SBIR Grant for Fusion Research

November 19, 2024

Photo portrait of Kaan Aytekin.

Kaan Aytekin Receives APS Outstanding Student Poster Award

October 30, 2024

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

APS DPP Multipetawatt Physics

“Multi-Petawatt Physics at New and Future Laser User Facilities” at APS-DPP

September 30, 2024

Inertial Fusion Energy APS DPP

Mini-Conference, “Progress in Making IFE-Based Concepts a Reality,” at APS-DPP

September 30, 2024

LLE Research Team Wins 2024 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

September 16, 2024

Two figures from Review of Scientific Instruments by Joseph Katz.

Manuscript on Thomson-Scattering Diagnostics Chosen As Editor’s Pick

September 9, 2024

Group photo of BEST students and HIgh school students program.

A Summer of Science for Rochester-Area High School Students

August 30, 2024

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

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

August 27, 2024

LLE and Focused Energy, Part of the INFUSE Network, Secure DOE Grant to Advance Fusion Research

August 16, 2024

Members from the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics presented at the LaserNetUS meeting.

LaserNetUS 2024: Collaboration, Connection, and Community

August 9, 2024

Petawatt Laser Systems cover and authors Leon Waxer, Jake Bromage, and Brian Kruschwitz spread across a blue background from left to right.

SPIE Spotlight Shines on Petawatt Laser Systems

August 7, 2024

Benjamin Webb’s Paper Highlighted in Spotlight on Optics

August 5, 2024

Photo portrait of Jason Puth.

Jason Puth Takes Helm as Omega Facility Division Director

August 1, 2024

J. J. Ruby

LLE Alumnus JJ Ruby Supports Houston Astros with Physics and Engineering

July 29, 2024

Photo portrait of Valentin Karasiev pictured in front of a background illustration of a figure from his paper.

LLE Paper Promoted as Physics of Plasmas Editor’s Pick

July 22, 2024

Varchas Gopalaswamy standing in front of painting of the OMEGA Laser System.

Varchas Gopalaswamy Appointed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

July 15, 2024

Top, from left to right: the Density-Functional Theory (DFT) coding team members: Katie Hilleke, Nathaniel Shaffer, John Cappelletti, Suxing Hu, Marcos Ibáñez, Deyan Mihaylov, and Cody Reeth. Bottom: a simulation of a 3s orbital of krypton.

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

July 8, 2024

Eddy Wu standing by his scientific poster at a conference booth.

Pittsford Sutherland Graduate Eddy Wu Receives ISEF Award

July 1, 2024

Composite of two group photos of LLE volunteers (top and bottom) wearing blue Day of Caring tee shirts.

A Successful Second Annual Day of Caring for Team LLE

June 24, 2024

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

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

June 24, 2024

Hunter Markland Awarded 2024 Susumu Okubo Prize

June 17, 2024

Laser Focus World magazine cover and inside pages spread across a light gray background.

LLE Featured in May 2024 Edition of Laser Focus World

June 10, 2024

Group of people cutting ceremony ribbon outside of LLE's Office and Lab Expansion building.

Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Officially Opens LLE Office and Laboratory Expansion

June 3, 2024

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

June 3, 2024

Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Julia Kubes Inducted into Tau Beta Pi Honor Society

May 28, 2024

Group of people who attended OLUG conference in the Bloch Alumni and Advancement Center.

Fifteenth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 20, 2024

Photo of Declan Walden

Declan Walden Selected for CLEO 2024 Post-Deadline Session

May 6, 2024

Rip Collins speaking at a podium in the University of Rochester's Douglas Commons building.

Gilbert (Rip) Collins Elected as Fellow to AAAS

April 30, 2024

Varchas Gopalaswamy standing in front of painting of the OMEGA Laser System.

Varchas Gopalaswamy Receives 2024 EPS–PPCF Sylvie Jacquemot Early Career Prize

April 29, 2024

Matthew Cufari standing against stone wall in the LLE east lobby.

Matthew Cufari Awarded 2024 NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship

April 16, 2024

LLE Celebrates the Retirement of Distinguished Scientist Vladimir Glebov

April 16, 2024

Gerrit Bruhaug working in a laboratory, wearing safety equipment, bathed in purple light.

Gerrit Bruhaug’s Paper Highlighted as Editor’s Pick in Optics Letters

April 9, 2024

Group photo of students in front of the National Ignition Facility with a border around it showing the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Rochester, and LLE logos and University of Rochester: March 11, 2024.

Inaugural National Lab Trip for Students in LLE’s Undergraduate Education Program

April 8, 2024

Photo portrait of Dhurmir Patel pictured in front of a background illustration of a figure from his paper.

Dhrumir Patel’s Paper Selected for Physics of Plasma’s 2023 Early Career Author Special Collection

April 1, 2024

Gregory Demos where protective eyewear adjusting equipment on a light table.

Paper by LLE Summer High School Research Program Student Published in Optical Engineering

March 18, 2024

Person standing in front of OMEGA Laser System painting.

Michelle Marshall to Lead High-Energy-Density Physics Experiments Group

March 4, 2024

Target shot inside the OMEGA target chamber.

LLE Scientists Advance Techniques for Generating Fusion Energy at Larger Scales

February 19, 2024

High School Program students inside of the OMEGA EP Laser System.

2024 Summer High School Research Program

February 12, 2024

Collage of people giving demonstrations at the LLE Safety Appreciation Day.

LLE Holds Safety Appreciation Day

February 5, 2024

SafeZone Initiative speaker presenting in the LLE Coliseum.

LLE Pride hosts Trans Allyship Seminar

January 29, 2024

Image montage of LLE in Focus magazine cover on top of two pread images from the issue.

Introducing LLE In Focus

January 9, 2024

Terry Kessler

Terrance Kessler Elected Optica Fellow

January 8, 2024

Dustin Froula speaking with a reporter next to the LLE Contributions to Ignition plaque.

LLE Featured on News 10NBC

January 1, 2024

Scientist Jeremy Pigeon installing a radial echelon by inserting a metal part into a system in front of a blue-lit background.

Jeremy Pigeon Awarded Young Investigator Research Program Grant

December 28, 2023

Image of Cooperative Agreement publication on a background of a blue target shot.

LLE Cooperative Agreement Renewed with U.S. Department of Energy

December 13, 2023

$10 Million in Funding Secured for New Inertial Fusion Energy Consortium

December 7, 2023

Group photo holding framed awards in front of the OMEGA airbrush illustration.

2023 Capt. Loucks Recognition Awards

December 4, 2023

Three people standing at a conference booth with banners for LLE Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council.

LLE Representation at AISES Conference

November 20, 2023

Screen capture of YouTube video for Vox Science

LLE Featured in New Viral Video

November 16, 2023

David Turnbull accepting an award and shaking hands at a podium labeled with APS Division of Plasma Physics.

David Turnbull Receives 2023 Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research

November 6, 2023

Two photographs, a group photo on top of NNSA and LLE Senior Leadership, and a photo on the bottom of visitors in a lab dressed in clean-room hairnets, protective glasses, and white lab suits.

DOE Officials Visit LLE

October 23, 2023

Photograph of Conesus supercomputer cluster.

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

October 13, 2023

NSF Funds Design of World-Leading NSF-OPAL Laser Facility

September 25, 2023

Group photo of Stephen Craxton with 2023 Summer High School Research Program students.

LLE’s 34th Summer High School Research Program

September 25, 2023

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

First Time-Resolved Diffraction Measurements Made on OMEGA EP

September 18, 2023

The PEPC being loaded into a high power laser system.

Sydor Technologies Receives Grant for Developing Plasma Electrode Pockels Cells for Inertial Fusion Facilities

September 11, 2023

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

LLE Collaborates with SUNY Geneseo and Houghton University

September 4, 2023

Group photo from the visit of New York State Senator, Samra Brouk.

Visit by New York State Senator Samra Brouk

August 28, 2023

U.S. Department of Energy Awards $28.5 Million to LaserNetUS

August 20, 2023

Avi Milder.

Avi Milder Selected to Receive Chiyoe Yamanaka Award

August 14, 2023

Maria Gatu.

Maria Gatu Johnson Promoted to Principal Research Scientist

August 7, 2023

LLE’s 2023 Broad Exposure to Science and Technology Research Program

July 31, 2023

David Turnbull

David Turnbull Selected for 2023 Edouard Fabre Prize

July 24, 2023

Photo of four LLE Researchers named Optica Senior Members: Chengyong Feng, Mark Meyers, Erik Power, and Benjamin Webb.

Four LLE Researchers Named Optica Senior Members

July 17, 2023

LLE Paper Highlighted as Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion

July 12, 2023

Riccardo Betti in front of a whiteboard covered in equations.

Riccardo Betti Awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences

July 10, 2023

$Danae Polsin, assembling a powder x-ray diffraction image plate (PXRDIP)$

Danae Polsin Receives SUNY Geneseo Outstanding Young Alum Award

June 26, 2023

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

Advancing Flow Visualization at Ultrahigh Pressure

June 20, 2023

David VanWey being awarded the University of Rochester Witmer Award for Distinguished Service on Wednesday, June 8, 2023.

David VanWey Awarded Witmer Award for Distinguished Service

June 12, 2023

Three researchers looking through a drilled hole in the wall.

The FLUX Beam Transport Project

May 30, 2023

Group photo of Day of Caring participants on top with employees working shown beneath.

LLE Gives Back to the Community with United Way Day of Caring

May 22, 2023

Suxing Hu.

Suxing Hu Appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering

May 22, 2023

NSF Engines Development Award.

University of Rochester Awarded Regional Innovation Grant for STELLAR Engine Project

May 15, 2023

Alison Christopherson

LLE Graduate, Alison Christopherson, Elected National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow

May 15, 2023

14th Omega Facility Users Group Workshop attendees shown in two group photos.

Fourteenth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 8, 2023

Six photos of students along the top and an image of the student expo beneath with students displaying their posters.

LLE Undergraduate Program Attends Research Expo

May 1, 2023

Jay Eastman and Barukh Yaakobi.

In Memoriam

April 26, 2023

Dillon Ramsey

LLE Graduate Student Dillon Ramsey Awarded the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student

April 17, 2023

Diagnosing magnetic fields in cylindrical implosions with oblique proton radiography.

LLE Paper Featured in Physics of Plasmas Early Career Author Special Collection

March 28, 2023

Rick Spielman

Rick Spielman was Awarded the 2023 Erwin Marx Award

March 27, 2023

A group photo of the Genesee Staff Council members on top, and a photo of the coucil in a meeting on the bottom.

Genesee Staff Council visits LLE

March 20, 2023

A group photo from the 2023 Stephen D. Jacobs Memorial talk

Stephen D. Jacobs 2023 Memorial Lecture

March 13, 2023

Diagram demonstrating the All-Optical, Optically Addressable Liquid Crystal-Based Light Valve Employing Photoswitchable Alignment Layer for High-Power and/or Large Aperture Laser Applications

Patent for LLE Technology Awarded

March 6, 2023

Screen capture from video: Laser Research for the Next Generation, Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester.

LLE Featured in WebsEdge Science Video at APS March Meeting

March 6, 2023

Steve Craxton and Lindsay Browning posing in front of an OMEGA Laser System poster

LLE High School Program Alums Continue to Excel

February 27, 2023

Scott Hsu, Chris Deeney, and Sarah Nelson posing for a picture.

DOE Officials Visit LLE

February 20, 2023

Group photo of LLE employees celebrating

Longtime LLE Photographer, Eugene Kowaluk, Retires

February 13, 2023

Chien Nature Physics Paper and an illustration of a capacitor coil target driven by two long-pulse lasers.

Experiments on OMEGA EP Featured in Nature Physics Paper

February 6, 2023

Construction of new building with inset photo of construction workers pouring concrete.

Office & Lab Expansion Update

January 30, 2023

Target shot of laser on the top with a group photo on the bottom.

OMEGA EP’s 10,000th Shot

January 23, 2023

Scientists group photo in front of LANL PLX.

Flash Center Releases New Version of FLASH code

January 6, 2023

Target shot at LLE.

Milestone in Fusion Energy

December 15, 2022

From left to right Philip Nilson, Alex Chin; Suxing Hu, and David Bishel (inset).

LLE Research Points Toward an Improved Understanding of Dense-Plasma Environments

December 7, 2022

With LLE Director, Chris Deeney, on the left, and CAPT. Steve Loucks, on the right, shown holding their plaques which detail their recognition are from left to right Andrew Sorce, Sharyl Abbey, Tyler McKean, Daniel Neyland, and Jeremy Coon.

The Inaugural Capt. Loucks Recognition Awards

November 30, 2022

Vivian Zinszer with Josh Jaworowicz performing inspection and maintenance of fire extinguishers.

Periodic Fire Extinguisher Inspections

November 21, 2022

Will Trickey, Brittany Callin, and Denise Hinkel

Outstanding APS Undergraduate Poster Award to Brittany Callin

November 7, 2022

Suxing Hu (Advisor), Reetam Paul (LLE Horton Fellow, Ph.D. 2022), Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback (Chair), Frank Huo, and Niaz Abdolrahim.

Reetam Paul, the First Ph.D. from the HEDP-Theory Group

October 24, 2022

ARPA-e group photo visit.

ARPA-E Visits LLE

October 10, 2022

Investigating Earth Core Pressures

October 3, 2022

Office of Counsel Group Photo.

Members of the University’s Office of Counsel Visit LLE

September 19, 2022

LLE High School Program group photo.

LLE’s 33rd Summer High School Research Program

September 12, 2022

Alison Christopherson with equations.

Alison Christopherson Awarded the 2022 American Physical Society Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis

September 6, 2022

BEST program 2022 group photo.

BEST High School Program

September 6, 2022

New building for LLE with Chris Deeney and other speakers posing with shovels.

Groundbreaking for the LLE Building Expansion

August 22, 2022

Jo Stiles shown shaking hands with LLE Summer High School Research Program participant, Grace Wu.

Jo Stiles Visits LLE

August 15, 2022

Jill Hruby and Joe Morelle Visit LLE

Jill Hruby and Joe Morelle Visit LLE

July 9, 2022

Mike Campbell holding dinosaur with human head

Tributes to Past Director Include a Presidential Reception and a Dedicated Symposium

June 21, 2022

Anomalous Absorption Conference group photo.

50th Anomalous Absorption Conference 2022

June 20, 2022

LLE timeline

The Illustrated History of LLE

June 13, 2022

Morgan LaMere shown with an example of the new custom-designed GHS label

Implementation of the International GHS Standard to Chemicals

June 13, 2022

Coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy target system, left, and target, right.

Low-Vibration Cryostat to Optimize Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy for 3-D Target Metrology

June 6, 2022

HTPD 2022 hosted by LLE

May 31, 2022

Direct Drive Fast Ignition Workshop group photo.

Direct Drive Fast Ignition Workshop

May 31, 2022

Certificate that reads: The Flag of the United States of America, this is to certify that the accompanying flag was flown over the Pentagon on April 25, 2022 in honor of Mike Campbell for your service to the Nation

Mike Campbell Honored for his Service to the Nation

May 25, 2022

CMAP group photo outside of LLE

CMAP Annual Meeting and Bootcamp Held at LLE

May 23, 2022

Christopher Deeney.

Christopher Deeney appointed new director of the Laser Lab

May 17, 2022

Luis Leal Physics of Plasmas Cover.

LLE Article Featured on the Cover of Physics of Plasmas

May 12, 2022

OLUG attendees.

Thirteenth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 9, 2022

Two plaques recognizing the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics are hung in the LLE Lobby.

Plaques Honoring Nobel Prize Recipients

May 2, 2022

Sam Miller and his thesis committee.

Sam Miller Defends Thesis and Joins LLE

April 25, 2022

Collage of photos of Sethuraman Panchanathan visiting LLE.

National Science Foundation Director Visits LLE

April 18, 2022

Owen Mannion, Radha Bahukutumbi, and Matthew Cufari.

Matthew Cufari has won a 2022 Goldwater Scholarship

April 11, 2022

Employees gathered in the LLE Lobby to pay tribute to Mike Campbell in an informal retirement gathering.

Employees Gather to Pay Tribute to Retiring Director

April 4, 2022

Visitors in cleanroom suits at the OMEGA target chamber.

Focused Energy: Inertial Fusion Energy Start-Ups Value LLE

March 29, 2022

Fusion meeting in the White House, participants including Mike Campbell gathered around a table.

White House Fusion Energy Summit

March 22, 2022

Internal view of the OMEGA Laser's target chamber during a target shot

$83 Million in Funding Secured for LLE

March 18, 2022

Four images of safety inspections in OMEGA EP.

Monthly Safety Inspections

March 14, 2022

FLASH simulations of the TDYNO platform.

“Strong suppression of heat conduction in a laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster turbulent plasmas” by J. Meinecke et al. to appear on Science Advances

March 9, 2022

The mid-scale PEPC with the project’s team.

The Midscale PEPC Project

February 28, 2022

National Accelerator Laboratory schematic.

LLE to Provide Laser for Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade Project at the National Accelerator Laboratory

February 18, 2022

LLE’s Summer High School Research Program has Mentored Over 100 Eventual Doctorates

February 14, 2022

Bill Krupke and Stephen Payne.

Bill Krupke Awarded SPIE Maiman Laser Award

February 13, 2022

Tim Collins and coauthors, left, Cover of Physics of Plasmas Volum 29, Issue 1, Jan 2022, right.

Article Featured on the Cover of Physics of Plasmas

February 2, 2022

Project manager Brian Ehrich positioning the IR-OTIS at the OMEGA C-Amp input.

The Infrared OMEGA Transport Instrumentation System

January 31, 2022

FLUX System.

The FLUX System

January 17, 2022

Petros Tzeferacos explains FLASH simulations.

The University of Rochester welcomes the Flash Center for Computational Science

January 11, 2022

Chris Deeney in cleanroom attire standing in OMEGA EP.

Chris Deeney Tours OMEGA EP

January 11, 2022

High Power Laser Science and Engineering Cover.

MTW-OPAL Featured on High Power Laser Science and Engineering Cover

January 10, 2022

Valentin Karasiev, Joshua Hinz, Suxing_Hu, and Samuel Trickey.

LLE Featured in Nature

December 27, 2021

Larry Helfer (left) and Nelson LeBarron (right).

In Memoriam

December 20, 2021

Chris Deeney, Radha Bahukutumbi, and Mike Campbell.

Radha Bahukutumbi Receives 2021 Fusion Power Associates Leadership Award

December 17, 2021

Amy Rigatti, Jean-Christophe Poncetta, Stephane Seznec, and Cedric Maunier.

Visit by CEA

December 13, 2021

Simran Chowdhry in front of poster.

Outstanding APS Undergraduate Poster Award to Simran Chowdhry

November 29, 2021

Dynamic Compression Sector Target Chamber.

LLE’s Laser Technology Impact Extends Beyond New York State

November 16, 2021

Dustin Froula.

Dustin Froula Appointed Professor

November 8, 2021

Amplifier Housings Light Up as OMEGA EP Fires

LLE Featured in Physics Today

November 8, 2021

Josh Farrelman, Connor Williams, Chris Deeney, Congressman Joe Morelle, Mike Campbell, Clayton Cox, Peter Robinson.

Congressman Joe Morelle Visits LLE

October 27, 2021

Maggie Huff, Connor Williams, Josh Farrelman, Senator Jeremy Cooney, Mike Campbell, Amanda Santacroce, Chris Deeney, Dave Canning, Elma Borcilo, and Sam Morse.

Senator Jeremy Cooney Visits LLE

October 27, 2021

Jim Stein, Chris Deeney, Emily Kinkead, Sam Morse, Dave Canning.

The Honorable Emily Kinkead Visits LLE

October 14, 2021

Result (top) and summary of the technique (bottom) used First Ever Spatially Resolved Ion Temperature Data in ICF

First-Ever, Spatially Resolved Ion Temperature Data in ICF

October 13, 2021

Hans Rinderknecht, left, and Cliff Thomas, right.

LLNL 2021 Director’s Science and Technology Award

October 4, 2021

Three technicians putting the spool on the Moving Cryogenic Transfer Cart (MCTC).

MCTC On Cart Viewing Upgrade Project

October 4, 2021

Nicole Hushla Re, Sarah Clark, Josh Farrelman (UR), Mike Campbell, Chris Deeney, Clayton Cox (UR), Sam Morse, and Dave Canning.

The Honorable Sarah Clark Visits LLE

September 27, 2021

Hans Rinderknecht.

Hans Rinderknecht and LLNL Low-Mode Asymmetries in ICF Implosions Team Awarded Defense Programs Award of Excellence

September 20, 2021

Bob Nagler (LCLS scientist), Linda Hansen (UR graduate student), Alex Chin (UR graduate student also visible in the inset), Hae Ja Lee (LCLS scientist), Ethan Smith (UR graduate student), and Danae Polsin (LLE scientist).

Danae Polsin, First LLE Principal Investigator at the LCLS Facility at SLAC

September 13, 2021

Adam Frank, seated, speaking from the stage of a symposium.

Adam Frank Awarded the 2021 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence

August 30, 2021

David Eimerl in the cockpit of an airplane

Remembering David Eimerl

August 20, 2021

Christopher Deeney

Christopher Deeney Named Deputy Director at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

August 19, 2021

1.3 MJ written on top of target shot image

Fusion Progress Validates a 40-Year Quest

August 18, 2021

Group shot of BEST Research Program for high school students and teachers

The BEST Research Program for Rochester City Schools

August 16, 2021

Target shot on the OMEGA Laser System

LLE Featured in Scientific American

July 26, 2021

Radha Bahukutumbi

Radha Bahukutumbi Selected Recipient of 2021 Fusion Power Associates Leadership Award

July 12, 2021

The stage F Alignment Sensor Package (F-ASP).

Upgrade to the OMEGA Beamline Alignment System

July 12, 2021

Stephen Craxton, Kimberly Truebger zoom meeting with summer high school students 2021

Summer High School Research Program, 2021

June 28, 2021

Target shot image

Measuring Scattered-Light Uniformity on Implosion Experiments

June 14, 2021

Roger Falcone, Mike Campbell, Mike Perry, and Jon Zuegel at General Atomics.

General Atomics Visit

June 11, 2021

Petros Tzeferacos.

Petros Tzeferacos Receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award

June 4, 2021

Neutron detector prototypes.

Neutronics Lab Provides Testing of Neutron Detector Prototypes

June 1, 2021

MTW Multi-Terawatt laser.

Underdense Plasma Target Area

May 24, 2021

Emma Garcia, Steve Craxton, Yugia Yang, Pat McKenty, and Charles Yeamans.

Improving Polar Direct Drive Fusion Neutron Sources

May 17, 2021

Rick Spielman

Rick Spielman Nominated for Seat on the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

May 12, 2021

OLUG 2021 Group Photo of all the participants on Zoom.

OLUG 2021

May 10, 2021

2020 Timeline plaque

Illustrated LLE History Updated

May 3, 2021

John Palastro

John Palastro Appointed Associate Professor

April 26, 2021

Experiments using the OMEGA Laser System Campaign Optical Depth 19A&B with collaborators from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Yavne, Israel (SNRC), University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory (UO) 21 August 2019; Gabriel Perez-Callejo, David Bishel, Josef Ehrlich, Moshe Fraenkel, Ze'ev Shpilman, Ed Marley, and Jim Emig

Resonant Scattering Research at the Omega Laser Facility

April 19, 2021

Video still from Adapting the Laboratory for Laser Energetics to the Pandemic video

Adapting the Laboratory for Laser Energetics to the Pandemic

April 9, 2021

Gilbert "Rip" Collins shown in APS TV video clip

Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures Featured in APS TV Video

March 29, 2021

Target chamber experiment shown on top and a group photo of the operations team beneath.

OMEGA’s 100,000th Shot

March 22, 2021

Wade Bittle, Russ Follett, and Varchas Gopalaswamy.

Al Simon Award for Best Paper

March 15, 2021

J. J. Ruby

J. J. Ruby Awarded Lawrence Fellowship

March 5, 2021

Energy being harvested from the sun

DOE Features the Future of Fusion Energy and Plasma Research

February 25, 2021

Wolfgang Theobald

Wolfgang Theobald Appointed Associate Professor

February 18, 2021

Frames were designed and produced for four-omega fiducial

Supporting the LLNL 4ω Fiducial

February 15, 2021

Rick Spielman

Rick Spielman Appointed Professor

February 10, 2021

Portrait: Rip Collins, left, Ryan Rygg, right

Researchers Measure Carbon at the Highest Pressures ever Achieved in a Laboratory

February 4, 2021

Senior Manufacturing Engineer Steve Verbridge and MCTC Leader Chad Fella perform annual preventative maintenance on Cart #2.

MCTC Preventative Maintenance

February 1, 2021

Kim Budil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Kim Budil Selected as Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

January 28, 2021

John Palastro (left) and Danae Polsin (right).

Danae Polsin and John Palastro Appointed Assistant Professors

January 21, 2021

Ultraviolet fluorescence microscope with an inset image of a dielectric material monolayer.

Detection of Defects in Multilayer Dielectric Coatings Using Ultraviolet Fluorescence Microscopy

January 19, 2021

Wolfgang Theobald

Landau-Spitzer Award Winner, Wolfgang Theobald, featured in APS Honors Spotlight

January 19, 2021

2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awards; Dustin Froula

Dustin H. Froula Recipient of E. O. Lawrence Award

January 12, 2021

Target rack

Cryogenic Target Racks

January 4, 2021

Computer Simulations Assist in Solar System Research

December 21, 2020

Terry Kessler

Terry Kessler Named Recipient of the IUPAP Distinguished Service Award

December 14, 2020

Tanner Simpson

Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Control of Laser Intensity Manuscript accepted for Publication

December 7, 2020

Michael Coffey, Dean Bredesen, and Ben Ruth collaborating to measure a cryogenic target

Microscope Measures Submicron Features on Cryogenic DT Targets

November 30, 2020

Schematic of the chromatic focusing system coupled to a spectrally chirped laser pulse.

Patent for LLE Technology Awarded

November 25, 2020

OMEGA EP Firing Five Beams

LaserNetUS Receives $18 million from the U.S. Department of Energy

October 28, 2020

David Turnbull

LLE Scientist Selected for Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award

September 29, 2020

Ryan Rygg

Ryan Rygg Elected APS Fellow

September 29, 2020

Kyle Kafka, scientist in the Optical Materials group, working in the dynamics chamber

Femtosecond Damage-Test System

September 28, 2020

Jake Bromage

Jake Bromage Elected OSA Fellow

September 17, 2020

Katarina Nichols

Donna Strickland Fellowship Awarded

September 14, 2020

Target shot that shows the long tube of plasma

Thomson Scattering Used to Study Thermal Transport Across High Magnetic fields

August 31, 2020

Illustration showing dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration

Department of Energy Features LLE Flying Focus Research

August 25, 2020

Artist interpretation of exoplanet formations

The Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures Funded by the National Science Foundation

August 21, 2020

Alexis Vogt

Alexis Vogt Awarded IEEE Photonics Society Technical Skills Educator Award

August 10, 2020

Sam Morse and Nicolaos Savidis

Samuel Morse and Nickolaos Savidis Elected Optical Society Senior Members

July 27, 2020

Riccardo Betti and Wolfgang Theobald

LLE Scientists Selected for Landau-Spitzer Award

July 16, 2020

Four students from LLE’s 2019 Summer Research Program; Henry Berger, Ji-Mi Jang, Simon Narang, Hanna Wiandt

Four Students Chosen as Finalists in InspoScience Research and Innovation Competition

July 13, 2020

Zac Piontkowski

Former LLE Undergraduate Receives Dissertation Award

July 13, 2020

Jun Zou using microscope

Cryo Imager

July 6, 2020

Pierre Gourdain

Pierre Gourdain Named Associate Professor

June 29, 2020

MTW compression chamber, two-color, laser-shearing interferometry in inset

10,000th Shot on the Multi-Terawatt Laser

June 22, 2020

Patrick Poole at his home while controlling the SRSXRay-20A campaign on OMEGA

Remote PI shot operations on OMEGA and OMEGA EP

June 8, 2020

Mark J. Guardalben featured on the cover of High Power Laser Science and Engineering

High Power Laser Science and Engineering Cover Feature

May 29, 2020

Chuck Sorce

Chuck Sorce Awarded Top Honors

May 20, 2020

Foam Structure Fabricated in Support of New Target Designs

Foam Structure Fabricated in Support of New Target Designs

May 11, 2020

Drill machine and an inset with a view through a microscope showing 10 holes

Drilling Holes in Submillimeter-Size Spheres Used in Target Fabrication

April 27, 2020

Valeri Goncharov, Petros Tzeferacos

LLE Scientists Awarded Department of Energy Funding

April 21, 2020

Optics image

Jim Oliver’s Paper to be featured in OSA’s Spotlight on Optics

April 13, 2020

Masks embroidered and sewn by Desiree Morgan

LLE Staff Show Excellence in their Community and at the Lab

April 7, 2020

Ken Anderson

Ken Anderson named Outstanding Reviewer for Journal of Physics Communications

April 6, 2020

Todd Smith helping facilitate the delivery of the masks for LLE cleanrooms

LLE Donates Cleanroom Masks to Medical Center

March 26, 2020

Jake Bromage superimposed with 4 four figures; technology development for ultra-intense all-OPCPA systems

High Power Laser Science and Engineering Paper Named Editor-in-Chief Choice Award

March 23, 2020

Jon Zuegel, Jake Bromage, Hans Rinderknecht, and Milt Shoup visited ELI Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)

Visit to ELI-NP

March 10, 2020

$Federica Coppari holding an x-ray diffraction image plate$

Federica Coppari Named a New Leader in Space Science

March 3, 2020

Maitrayee Ghosh

Maitrayee Ghosh Receives IBM-Zerner Graduate Student Award

March 2, 2020

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) United States of America

LLE Awarded a Five-Year Research Grant by DTRA

February 24, 2020

Pierre Gourdain

Professor Pierre Gourdain Receives NSF CAREER Award

February 12, 2020

Group photo of Young Women’s College Prep Charter School of Rochester (YWCP)

Young Women’s College Prep Visits LLE

February 10, 2020

CPR training practice with Amy Rigatti and Rodi Keisidis

In-House First-Aid/CPR/AED Training

January 30, 2020

Rip Collins presenting at LLE

Rip Collins Named Tracy Hyde Harris Professor

January 22, 2020

Mark Wittman, Siman Narang, Dean Bredesen

LLE Summer High School Research Program Participant Named Science Talent Search Scholar

January 20, 2020

Donna Strickland in a lab, orange glass

Donna Strickland Appointed to Order of Canada

January 13, 2020

OMEGA EP target shot, green

First LaserNetUS Experiment at LLE

December 30, 2019

Reuben Epstein

Reuben Epstein Named American Physical Society Outstanding Referee

December 16, 2019

David Turnbull interview with channel 8 WROC

Newly Published Research Showcased in the Media

December 9, 2019

A visualization of a black hole which illustrates how gravity distorts our view

New NASA Black Hole Visualization Created by LLE Alum

December 2, 2019

Dance and physics juxtaposition

New University Class Combines Dance and Physics

November 18, 2019

Joe Kilkenny

Dr. Joseph Kilkenny Awarded Defense Programs Award of Excellence

November 11, 2019

2019 Siegman International School on Lasers group

2019 Siegman International School on Lasers

November 4, 2019

Donna Strickland with Mike Campbell filming Wired episode

Wired Episode Now Available

October 30, 2019

Katelyn Cook at 2019 Omega Laser Users Group meeting with her poster; the inset shows her speaking

Katelyn Cook Winner of the 2019 LeRoy Apker Award

October 21, 2019

Max Neiderbach and Michael Sharpe in protective gear (upper left), Michele Lin (upper right) displaying a piece of a unique plastic, Ji-Mi Jang (lower left) using a green laser, George Morcos (lower right) looking under a crossed polarizer

31st Summer High School Research Program

October 14, 2019

Varchas Gopalaswany

Varchas Gopalaswamy Receives Yamanaka Award

October 7, 2019

Carl Heastie is greeted by Sarah C. Mangelsdorf

Visit of NYS Assemblymembers

September 30, 2019

Donna Strickland with Mike Campbell filming Wired episode

LLE Gets Wired!

September 23, 2019

Jackson Oswalt presenting in coliseum

World’s Youngest Fusioneer Visits LLE

September 16, 2019

Lisa Gordon-Hagerty talking at podium

The Honorable Lisa Gordon-Hagerty Visits LLE

September 4, 2019

NIF Building

10 Years of NIF Operations

August 15, 2019

Dean Bredesen and Sean Adams with equipment

Reducing Layering Time in Cryogenic Targets

August 12, 2019

Ken Marshall and Leslie Gregg wit Four students from Rush-Henrietta Senior High School

High School Student Poster Wins Several Awards

July 29, 2019

Celebrating Nobel Laureate and University of Rochester Alumna Donna Strickland

July 22, 2019

Maria Gatu Johnson

Congratulations to Maria Gatu Johnson on Receiving the APS DPP Weimer Award

July 15, 2019

Dawson Award recipients

Research Conducted on Omega Wins Dawson Award

July 8, 2019

Optical Manufacturing's 54-in. coating vacuum chamber

Coatings Developed for Use in a Short-Pulse Laser System

June 24, 2019

Alex Chin Wins NNSA Fellowship

June 10, 2019

Evidence of Superionic Water Published in Nature

May 22, 2019

High School Students Present at the 11th Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 10, 2019

OLUG, The 10th Anniversary

May 1, 2019

Using Grism Stretchers to Manipulate Temporal Profiles

April 16, 2019

nTOF spectrometers

The Second Shielded and Collimated Line-of-Sight Neutron Time-of-Flight Spectrometers on OMEGA

April 5, 2019

New Insights About Multi-Ion Physics and Ion Stopping in HED Plasmas

March 25, 2019

Using an Interferometer to Map Electron Density Gradients in HEDP Experiments

March 18, 2019

Women Scientists Gather to Celebrate LLE Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland

March 11, 2019

Testing a Diphenylacetylene (DPAC) Scintillator on OMEGA for Neutron Spectroscopy

March 4, 2019

13th National Diagnostics Working Group Meeting

February 19, 2019

Group photo

Professor Gilbert “Rip” Collins Installed as Dean’s Professor

February 5, 2019

Alison Christopherson

Alison Christopherson Awarded Laser and Particle Beams Young Scientist Award

February 5, 2019

LLE employees wearing biking jerseys

Ride, Run, or Walk with LLE in the Tour de Cure

February 5, 2019

Walter Shmayda, Cody Fagan, Steve Craxton

Two 2018 LLE Summer High School Research Program Participants Named Science Talent Search Scholars

January 28, 2019

Group from Geneseo

SUNY Geneseo Receives APS Improving Undergraduate Physics Education Award

January 14, 2019

John Lambropoulos teaching a class

LLE Scientist Wins Undergraduate Teaching Award

January 2, 2019

Robert Henchen working on the Thomson Telescope

Thomson Scattering from Electron Plasma Waves

December 17, 2018

Wolfgang Theobald (left), Mingsheng Wei (right)

Two LLE Scientists Elected to APS Fellowship

December 3, 2018

Crane extended over LLE

Second Line-of-Sight Integration

November 21, 2018

Andrey Okishev

In Memory of Andrey V. Okishev

November 7, 2018

Banner on light pole for "The Rochester Effect" advertising campaign. OMEGA target bay in background. Reads: "Delivering 40,000 joules per billionth of a second for energy ever better"

UR Banners Highlighting LLE

October 29, 2018

2018 Summer High School Research program participants: Upper left: Steven Booth upper right: Katie Kopp, Lower left: Maia Raynor, lower right: Hannah Lang

30th Summer High School Research Program

October 15, 2018

OMEGA EP Laser Bay

LLE Joins New Nationwide High-Intensity Laser Network

October 10, 2018

Gérard Mourou, top left, Donna Strickland, bottom left, pictured with a graph showing their discovery of chirped-pulse amplification and the Nobel Prize medal

Two Former LLE Researchers win Nobel Prize in Physics

October 2, 2018

Sean Regan

Sean Regan Selected Recipient of 2018 Fusion Power Associates Leadership Award

October 1, 2018

Sam Agnello working on test bench

Use of a Test Bench to Verify the TOP9 Relay Lens

September 17, 2018

Comb pulse generator

Comb Pulse Generator Developed at LLE

September 4, 2018

$Danae Polsin assembling a powder x-ray diffraction image plate$

Compressing Sodium into an Unexplored Pressure Regime

August 21, 2018

Magnetic fields around Jupiter

Studying Planetary Magnetic Fields

August 6, 2018

Alison Christopherson with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Connecting with Senator Gillibrand

July 30, 2018

Collin Stillman with Hall-geometry crystal spectrometer

Examination of Energy Transfer Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems

July 23, 2018

John Soures receiving plaque from Roberto Mancini at OLUG Workshop

John Soures Recognized by OLUG

July 16, 2018

Dan Neyland changing filtration in front of the charge-injected–device cameras GMXI diagnostic

Gated Monochromatic X-Ray Imaging Diagnostic

June 29, 2018

Participants in the 12th DOE Laser Safety Workshop (top), and images from the workshop (bottom)

12th U.S. DOE Laser Safety Officer Workshop

June 18, 2018

LLE employees wearing biking jerseys

LLE Rides in Tour de Cure

June 11, 2018

2018 OLUG Workshop participants

Tenth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

June 1, 2018

Top: employees inspect emergency shower, Bottom: practicing using a fire extiguisher

Safety at LLE

May 29, 2018

Participants in the 2018 B-field Workshop

Magnetic Fields in Laser Plasmas Workshop

May 21, 2018

Mingsheng Wei

Mingsheng Wei Appointed LLE’s National Laser Users’ Facility Program Manager

May 9, 2018

Target shot, blue

Record-Breaking Laser Experiments Simulate Cores of “Super Earths”

May 7, 2018

Linear Induction Motor (LIM) in the OMEGA Target Bay

Installation of the Linear Induction Motor Upgrade

April 16, 2018

Echelon Optics for Calibrating Ultrafast Streak Cameras

April 2, 2018

Gas-bag target

Gas-Bag Target

March 19, 2018

Stavros Demos

Stavros Demos Elected OSA Fellow

March 5, 2018

Pulse of laser light

NY Times Article Features Experiment at the Omega Laser Facility

February 16, 2018

Image of flying focus next to Dustin Froula

Flying Focus: Spatiotemporal Control of the Laser Focus

February 5, 2018

Mark Guardalben (upper left), Stephen Craxton (lower left), Nikhil Bose (upper right), Yujia Yang (lower right)

Two 2017 LLE Summer High School Research Program Participants Named Science Talent Search Scholars

January 22, 2018

Valeri Goncharov (upper left), Craig Sangster (upper right), Robert McCrory (lower left), Adam Sefkow (lower right)

Four LLE Scientists Receive Fusion Power Associates Awards

January 16, 2018

Ildar Begishev in cryostat chamber, along with the insert that shows a view of the square crystal through the cryostat

Highly Efficient Fifth-Harmonic Generation for Hot-Plasma Diagnostics

January 2, 2018

Mike Campbell

Dr. E. M. Campbell Appointed Laboratory Director

December 18, 2017

International Laser Operations Workshop (ILOW) and National Implosion Stagnation Physics Workshop group attendees

Workshops at LLE

December 11, 2017

Ken Marshall (left) and Ildar Begishev (right)

Ken Marshall and Ildar Begishev Elected Optical Society of America Senior Members

November 27, 2017

Rich Petrasso, Chikang Li, and Fredrick Séguin

LLE Users Awarded APS Dawson Award

November 13, 2017

Radha Bahukutumbi, left; Dustin Froula, center; and Christian Stoeckl, right

Three LLE Scientists Elected APS Fellows

October 30, 2017

Stars

Multi-Institutional Effort to Study “Extreme Matter”

October 16, 2017

Robert McCrory

End of an Era at LLE

October 2, 2017

2017 Summer High school students: Ben Chaback, upper left; Yujia Yang, upper right; Claire Guo, lower left; Meshach Cornelius, lower right

29th Summer Research Program for High School Juniors

September 18, 2017

$Danae Polsin and Amy Jenei assembling AlkaliDiffEP targets containing sodium (Na) metal for x-ray diffraction experiments$

Assembling Targets Containing Sodium Metal for X-Ray Diffraction Experiments

August 28, 2017

DOE/NNSA Equation-of-State Workshop group photo

First DOE/NNSA Equation-of-State Workshop held at LLE

August 14, 2017

Brian Youssef, Devanjith Fonseka, Chayut Teeraratkul, and James Tobias, with Jeff Ulreich and holding their poster

Undergraduate Course Supports LLE

July 31, 2017

2017 OLUG poster presenters Sapna Ramesh and Leah Xiao

High School Students Present at the 9th Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

July 17, 2017

Robert McCrory handing retirement gift to Jean-Luc Bourgade

Jean-Luc Bourgade Retires

June 30, 2017

Steve Ivancic with the PJX-3 X-ray Streak Camera

PJX-3 X-ray Streak Camera

June 19, 2017

Mark Wittman, Steve Verbridge, Desirée Whitaker, and Chad Fella at the Characterization Station

Characterization Station

June 5, 2017

Fourth-harmonic probe diagnostic system, inset shows a wide-field view of the diagnostic’s location

OMEGA EP 4ω Probe Diagnostic System

May 22, 2017

2017 OLUG Workshop participants

Ninth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 8, 2017

Tom Lewis and David Nelson with the diagnostic instrument manipulator high-resolution spectrometer

High-Resolution Spectrometer for the NIF

April 24, 2017

DCS Target Chamber

Dynamic Compression Sector Target Area System

April 10, 2017

Muhsin Umsu in OMEGA Laser Bay

The Omega Laser Facility Clean Room Environment

March 27, 2017

Ray Huff at ultraviolet alignment table

OMEGA Ultraviolet Alignment Table

March 16, 2017

Reuben Epstein and Wen-fai Fong

LLE High School Program Feedback

February 20, 2017

Attendees of the 2016 Laser–Plasma Interaction (LPI) Workshop

First Laser–Plasma Interaction Workshop

February 6, 2017

Michael Scipione examining a brick of flash lamps

Maintaining Laser Amplifiers

January 23, 2017

Steve Craxton and Webster Kehoe (top) Nate Morse and Mark Guardalben (bottom)

Two 2016 LLE Summer High School Research Program Participants Named Science Talent Search Scholars

January 9, 2017

Chad Forrest, configuring nuclear interaction vessel

Nuclear Interaction Vessel

December 23, 2016

Students in 2016 High School Summer Research Program: Nate Morse, upper left; Sapna Ramesh, upper right; Joy Zhang, lower left; Leah Xiao, lower right

28th Summer Research Program for High School Juniors

December 12, 2016

Jake Bromage

Jake Bromage Elected OSA Senior Member

November 28, 2016

Hong Sioholding 3-cm x-ray and charged-particle nose cone

Joint LLE/MIT Project to Measure ICF Implosions

November 14, 2016

A layering sphere design for the 100 Gbar fill-tube target project

A Layering Sphere Design for the 100-Gbar Fill-Tube Target Project

October 31, 2016

Jason Myatt

Jason Myatt selected Topical Associate Editor of Physics of Plasmas

October 17, 2016

Sphere illuminated with a directional beam of blue light

Improving the Arrival Times of 60 OMEGA Beams On Target

October 3, 2016

Group photo of The National Academy of Sciences Committee

Visit by the National Academies Committee

September 19, 2016

Ken Marshall

Ken Marshall Elected SPIE Senior Member

September 6, 2016

International Joint Diagnostic Workshop attendees

International Joint Diagnostic Workshop

August 22, 2016

Rotating cart (RCART) redesigned

NIF Rotating Cart Upgrade

August 8, 2016

Mike Rosenberg

Dr. Michael Rosenberg to Receive Rosenbluth Award

July 25, 2016

Cryogenic Target Handling System team; Jeff Ulreich, Chad Abbott, Mike Bradley, Jeff Kunzel, CodyShane Taylor, Dave Lonobile, Doug Jacobs-Perkins, Brian Rice, and Milt Shoup

OMEGA Linear Motor Upgrade

July 11, 2016

Jay Brown finalizing the setup of the 3-omega UV spectrometer (UVSPEC) calibration source

3ω UV Spectrometer Calibration Source

June 28, 2016

Palladium Tritide Bed

Palladium Tritide Bed

June 13, 2016

Semyon Papernov with his students in his Nanometrology class wearing white lab coats

Studying Nanometrology

May 31, 2016

Attendees of the OLUG 2016 workshop

Eighth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 17, 2016

Steven Ivancic at the target chamber securing the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrometer to the Multi-Terawatt (MTW) laser target chamber.

EUV Spectrometer

April 25, 2016

Kazuo Tanaka, Steven Ivancic, and Riho Murakami

Visiting the OMEGA Target Bay

April 11, 2016

A penny next to Anti-target; consists of a copper disk with a 2-mm aperture

“Anti-Target” Target

March 28, 2016

Brian Charles measuring a glass surrogate target for OMEGA EP

Resolving Subnanometer Surface Topography

March 14, 2016

Frank Ehrne qualifying the dimensions on the HiResSpec, a high-resolving power x-ray spectrometer for OMEGA EP

Streaked High-Resolving-Power X-Ray Spectrometer

February 29, 2016

John Spaulding and Justin Foster installing an optic on a new prototype stage

A New Prototype Stage for Glancing Angle Deposition Coatings Research

February 12, 2016

Marius Adrien Millot and Stephanie Brygoo

Physicists Find New Evidence for Helium “Rain” on Saturn

February 1, 2016

Hope D’Alessandro evaluating the wavefront performance of a large laser component

Evaluating the Wavefront Performance of Large Optics

January 18, 2016

Thomas Eckert and August Gula in front of their poster presentation at OLUG 2015

Outstanding Presentation Award Honors Student Work Sponsored by LLE

January 4, 2016

Emily Sekera and Ken Marshall

Computational Chemistry Modeling

December 21, 2015

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand getting a tour of the OMEGA Laser System by John Soures and Sam Morse

Visit by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

December 7, 2015

Dynamic Compression Sector (DCS) laser.

Dynamic Compression Sector Laser

November 16, 2015

Colorful spectrum; Graxicon

The Graxicon

November 2, 2015

Alison Christopherson in front of a whiteboard of equations

Student Highlight, Alison Christopherson

October 19, 2015

A composite of students with their projects; Ryan Gao, Alex Proschel, and Gabriel Evans

27th Summer Research Program for High School Juniors

October 5, 2015

Michelle Evans performing target metrology

Preparing for National Ignition Facility Experiments at LLE

September 18, 2015

The multiple-pulse driver line (MPD); Jeremy Zenkar and Tanya Kosc aligning the system.

Multiple-Pulse Driver Line on OMEGA

September 4, 2015

Joe Romano using an automated Manncorp 7722FV pick-and-place machine to assemble printed circuit boards (PCB’s)

Automated Assembly of Printed Circuit Boards

August 21, 2015

Sivan Salzman nulling fringes on the white-light interferometer's NewView 100 live-image screen.

Examining Advanced MRF Fluids

August 7, 2015

Soft x-ray imager (S600-D)

Machine Shop Quality Control

July 24, 2015

$Jeremy Hassett with a software application he wrote to aid engineers and scientists at LLE with diffraction-grating system design and analysis$

Diffraction-Grating System Design and Analysis

July 13, 2015

Chad Mileham mounting the imaging nosecone to the PJX streak camera

Absolute Equation-of-State Measurements

June 30, 2015

Camera on Shroud System; Bob Earley with the camera housing above the shroud

Camera on the Shroud System

June 15, 2015

Stephen D. Jacobs

In Memory of Stephen D. Jacobs

June 4, 2015

Attendees of the OLUG 2015 workshop

Seventh Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 18, 2015

LLE Machinists with the NIF Soft-X-Ray Imager; Scott Gross, Bob McAllister, Steve Lombardo, and Ron Callari

LLE Machinists with the NIF Soft-X-Ray Imager

May 5, 2015

Albert Simon

Family Celebrates Albert Simon’s Service to LLE

April 17, 2015

P11-NTD; Joe Katz checking the final alignment of the diagnostic

The P11-NTD Image-Relay System Final Section

April 6, 2015

Roger Gram adjusting the position of a temperature sensor that is attached to a NIF-size cryogenic target

Calorimetry Measurements of Liquid Deuterium Supercooling in a Direct-Drive Target

March 16, 2015

KBFramed 16-Image X-ray Optic

KBframed 16-Image X-ray Optic

February 23, 2015

John Szczepanski with the magnet-based particle time-of-flight (MagPTOF) diagnostic assembled unit. Inset photo of the project team; Milt Shoup, John Szczepanski, Johan Frenje, Mark Bedzyk, Jason Magoon, Tony Agliata, Hans Rinderknecht, and Hong Sio

MagPTOF Diagnostic for Implosion Experiments on the NIF

February 2, 2015

The installation of the cryoNTD nose cone assembly into the target chamber

CryoNTD for High-Yield Cryogenic Experiments

January 19, 2015

Thomson x-ray scattering measurements

X-Ray Thomson-Scattering Measurements

December 8, 2014

Christophe Dorrer Elected OSA Fellow

November 24, 2014

Next-generation cryo target

Next-Generation Cryo Target

November 10, 2014

Leva McIntire investigating optimizing OPA performance

Pump-Laser Adaptive Optics

October 27, 2014

Vern Gruschow and Jim Oliver of OMAN with a 2-in test sample coated in the system along with the insert showing the film structure

Glancing-Angle Deposition for Distributed Polarization Rotators

October 13, 2014

Isotope Separation System

Isotope Separation System

September 29, 2014

Eric Hwang, Yifan Kong, Sam Goodman, posing in front of poster presentations

High School Students Present at the Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

September 15, 2014

Gas Cherenkov detectors

Recording Gamma Rays Produced During ICF Implosions

September 2, 2014

Collin Stillman

LLE Graduate Student Receives DOE NNSA Fellowship

August 11, 2014

Charles Kellogg in test facility using equivalent-target-plane diagnostic.

Focal-Spot Testing of an OMEGA Distributed Phase Plate

July 14, 2014

Group photo of students at OLUG workshop

Graduate Instruction at LLE

June 30, 2014

Attendees of OLUG 2014 workshop

Sixth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

June 16, 2014

Rory Hamilton working on the commissioning of an x-ray detection system

X-Ray Detection System

June 2, 2014

Group photo of researchers of Omega Laser Facility

The Omega Laser Facility Brings Together Researchers from Around the World

May 19, 2014

Walter Shmayda, Doug Jacobs-Perkins, Wal Provart, and Dave Egan discussing safety regulations

Visitor Safety Review

May 5, 2014

Group from LLNL; Dustin Froula

Visiting Experimenters

April 21, 2014

Group photo of participants from the Graduating Students Recruiting Weekend

Hosting Potential Graduate Students

April 21, 2014

NIF x-ray spectrometer (NXS) with the development team; Sean Regan, Milt Shoup, Mark Bedzyk, Chad Abbott, and Tim Clark

NIF X-Ray Spectrometer

April 7, 2014

Richard Fellows displaying a row of eight individual parts each of which will be used in the next generation planar cryo target

Micromachining In-House

March 24, 2014

Tour of the OMEGA EP Sources Bay by Christophe Dorrer

Studying OMEGA EP Beam Shaping

March 10, 2014

"Stopping Power" Targets

“Stopping-Power” Targets

January 27, 2014

Yifan Kong and Stephen Craxton

2013 Summer High School Research Program Participant Named Intel Semifinalist

January 13, 2014

Peter Celliers and Tom Boehly set up the OMEGA High Resolution velocity interferometer (OHRV) system

OMEGA High-Resolution Velocimeter

January 10, 2014

Kathy Weaver, demonstrating the proper use of a fire extinguisher to put out a staged fire

Fire Safety Training

January 2, 2014

Velocity interferometer (VISAR) system

VISAR System

December 18, 2013

MIFEDS (magneto-inertial fusion electrical discharge system); Larry Folnsbee

MIFEDS Upgrade

December 4, 2013

Neutron Time-of-Flight Detector

Neutron Time-of-Flight Detector

November 19, 2013

Steve Jacobs and Brittany Taylor examine a color-coded amplitude map

Mapping Liquid Crystal Optics

October 21, 2013

Joint-Shot Short-Pulse Beam Tube

Joint-Shot Short-Pulse Beam Tube

October 7, 2013

Glancing-angle–deposited (GLAD) films are evaluated by scientists wearing protective clothing

Scanning the Distributed Polarization Rotator

September 23, 2013

Group photo with Stephen Craxton and high students

25th Year of the Summer Research Program for High School Juniors

September 4, 2013

Part of the new Neutron Temporal Diagnostic (NTD) assembly being lowered into target chamber

Neutron Temporal Diagnostic Upgrade

August 20, 2013

High school student studying Deuterium

Studying Deuterium as part of the 2013 High School Program

August 5, 2013

Coil for Magnetized Plasma Experiments; kapton-insulated wire wound around a nylon coil-form

A New Type of Coil for Magnetized Plasma Experiments

July 22, 2013

Chad Forrest shown aligning collimator

Improving High-Resolution Neutron Spectroscopy

July 8, 2013

Ray Bahr is shown assembling the Sydor X-Ray Framing Camera (SFC) in the staging laboratory prior to the first use

Sydor X-Ray Framing Camera

July 8, 2013

Matthias Hohenberger giving presentation on Polar Drive Experiments

Research and Review Lecture Series

June 10, 2013

LLE timeline

An Illustrated History of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

May 28, 2013

Students Emily Armstrong, Christa Caggiano, and Raz Rivlis

High School Students Present at the Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 13, 2013

Amy Rigatti

2013 Technology Woman of the Year Nominee, Amy Rigatti

May 6, 2013

Karl Lintz with XRTS planar target.

XRTS Planar Target

April 22, 2013

Scientists examining data from an OMEGA EP shot

Rapid Turnaround of Experimental Data

April 8, 2013

Four beamlines of OMEGA EP firing during a target shot

OMEGA EP Fires Five Beams

March 25, 2013

Seung-Whan Bahk, Matthew Barczys, Mike Spilatro

Programmable Spatial Light Modulator

March 11, 2013

Dr. Cerulli and Dr. Jie Qiao

LLE’s Science and Technology Seminar Series: Intersecting Humanity and Science

February 25, 2013

Illuminated image of probe diagnostic

4w Probe Diagnostic Activated

February 13, 2013

Brittany Taylor positioning a circular polarization rotator

Measuring Optics at 355 nm

January 28, 2013

Emily Armstrong, Brian Kruschwitz, and Matthew Barczys

Summer High School Research Program Participant Named Intel Semifinalist

January 15, 2013

Alexei Kozlov, Semyon Papernov, Brittany Taylor, Andrey Okishev in New Damage Test Facility

New Damage Test Facility

December 27, 2012

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

Staging Cryogenic Targets

December 11, 2012

Attendees of 2012 OSA and APS meetings tour

International Attendees of the 2012 OSA and APS Meetings Tour LLE

November 19, 2012

Engineer Raymond Huff characterizing probe laser beam at a relay image plane of target chamber center

The OMEGA EP 4ω Probe Diagnostic

October 30, 2012

Scientist mounting cryogenic targets

Mounting Cryogenic Targets

October 15, 2012

Christa Caggiano holding a photoaligned liquid crystal device she made that converts linearly polarized light to radially polarized light

Radially Polarized Laser Beams

October 1, 2012

A NIF phase plate is being characterized within this test facility by Jo Bunkenburg and Charles Kellogg.

Focal-Spot Testing for NIF Polar-Drive Optics An

September 12, 2012

Scott Hylas (left) and Mark Bowman (right) examine large UV-beam reflecting mirrors

Target Bay Optics Inspections Optics

August 22, 2012

Aimee Owens with her advisor, Tanya Kosc, at a liquid crystal circular polarizer (LCP) identifying and testing possible degradation mechanisms

24th Summer Research Program for High School Juniors

August 6, 2012

Rick Roides and Christophe Dorrer at the Ultrafast Optical Parametric Amplifier in the Laser Development Laboratory

Ultrafast Optical Parametric Amplifier

July 23, 2012

Riccardo Betti Honored with DOE Award from Steven Chu

Riccardo Betti Honored with DOE Award

July 9, 2012

Multiple-FM Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion (Multi-FM SSD)

Multiple-FM Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion (Multi-FM SSD)

June 25, 2012

NIF Preamplifier Module (NIF PAM)

NIF Preamplifier Module Update

June 4, 2012

$Multilayer-Dielectric Diffraction Gratings; Heather Howard$

Multilayer-Dielectric Diffraction Gratings

May 21, 2012

Attendees of the OLUG 2012 workshop

Fourth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 7, 2012

Josh Reindl accessing the flash lamps in one of the sixty beamlines

Maintaining OMEGA

April 16, 2012

OMEGA electron spectrometer

Multichannel Electron Spectrometer

March 26, 2012

Mackenzie Hall mounting a sample of an adhesive into a dynamic mechanical analyzer

Understanding Adhesives at Cryogenic Temperatures

March 12, 2012

Streaked Optical Pyrometer Upgrade

Streaked Optical Pyrometer Upgrade

February 27, 2012

Four of the moving cryostat transfer carts (MCTC) are shown ready for docking with the target chamber

Transporting Cryogenic Targets

February 13, 2012

View OMEGA from the Visitors Gallery

View OMEGA from the Visitors Gallery

January 30, 2012

Stephen Craxton and Patricia Olson

Summer High School Research Program Participant Named Intel Semifinalist

January 16, 2012

Matt Moore (left) describing the upgrade of the OMEGA EP's infrared alignment table to Doug Jacobs-Perkins

Safety and Laser Upgrades

January 4, 2012

Mark Romanofsky fine tuning the installation of the shroud cooler and guide rail plates.

Fill/Transfer Station Upgrade

December 9, 2011

Stephanie Dent shown inspecting a two-inch-round piece of film

OMEGA Data Capture on Film

December 5, 2011

Debra Saulnier positioning a sample with the materials lab’s NMR instrument

Undergraduate Work at LLE

November 21, 2011

Jeff Rodas working inside the OMEGA EP Target Chamber

Inside the OMEGA EP Target Chamber

November 7, 2011

A planar cryo target with its capillary fill tube

Planar Cryogenic Targets within Moving Cryostats

October 24, 2011

Pulse stretcher for the ultra-broadband front-end project

Ultra-Broadband Front-End Project

October 10, 2011

2-ps-time-resolution P820 streak tube

Diagnosing OMEGA EP Pulse Shapes

September 26, 2011

Marisa Vargas doing research wearing protective equipment

Improving Laser Damage Thresholds

September 12, 2011

Madeline Rutan holding Abrasion-Resistant Antireflection Sol-Gel Coatings

2011 Summer High School Research Program

August 29, 2011

Cone-in-Shell Target

Cone-in-Shell Target

August 15, 2011

Target about to be inserted onto its positioner before being transported to the center of the chamber

View OMEGA from the Visitors Gallery

August 1, 2011

Ron Callari machining a spectrometer body

Machining NIF Diagnostics

July 18, 2011

Upper and Lower Cryo Shrouds

Product Quality Assurance Tool

July 6, 2011

Upper and Lower Cryo Shrouds

Upper and Lower Cryo Shrouds

June 20, 2011

South pole bang-time detector is shown here inside the NIF target chamber

LLE Diagnostics at the National Ignition Facility

June 6, 2011

Attendees of the OLUG 2011 workshop

Third Omega Facility Users Group workshop

May 23, 2011

Shroud Cooler used in the Fill Transfer Station

Fill/Transfer Station Shroud Cooler

May 9, 2011

Hubble News Team Visits LLE and filming in hallway

Hubble News Team Visits LLE

April 25, 2011

Coil shapes superimposed on an image of a target shot

Magnetized ICF Targets

April 11, 2011

Attendees of First International Workshop on ICF Shock Ignition

First International Workshop on ICF Shock Ignition

March 28, 2011

Inspecting the vacuum window and ultraviolet diagnostic beam splitter.

Integrating Optics

March 21, 2011

South Pole Bang-Time Diagnostic

South Pole Bang-Time Diagnostic

March 7, 2011

Spherical Crystal X-ray Imager

Spherical Crystal X-ray Imager

February 21, 2011

Discussion between Eric Toone, David Meyerhofer, and Sam Morse during visit

Dr. Eric Toone Visits LLE

February 7, 2011

Suxing Hu and Barry Xu

A 2010 LLE Summer High School Research Program Participant Named Intel Semifinalist

January 24, 2011

NIF Zirconium Neutron Activation Diagnostic

NIF Zirconium Neutron Activation Diagnostic

January 21, 2011

Optical Society of America and American Physical Society Annual Meeting attendees

Optical Society of America and American Physical Society Annual Meeting attendees visit LLE

January 7, 2011

Robert McCrory

SPIE interviews LLE Director Dr. Robert L. McCrory on the 50th anniversary of the Laser.

October 18, 2010

Participants shown with the ICUIL board

ICUIL 2010 Conference

October 6, 2010

Thomas Jones demonstrating ignition of acetone vapor

Electrostatic Ignition of Flammable Vapors

August 30, 2010

Walter Shmayda lecturing at 2010 high school summer program

2010 High School Summer Research Program

August 16, 2010

Steven Loucks, Robert McCrory, and Steven Koonin

DOE Under Secretary Koonin Visits LLE

August 2, 2010

CEA Visit, Amy Rigatti, Jim Oliver, group photo

CEA Visit

July 19, 2010

Eric Glowacki, preparing a membrane for testing using a custom-built permeation measurement tool

Membranes that Respond to Light

July 6, 2010

Physics Today cover

OMEGA Experiment on the Cover of Physics Today

June 21, 2010

A fisheye view of the OMEGA EP target chamber

Completion of the Off-Axis Parabola Inserter/Manipulator Project

June 9, 2010

Attendees of the 2010 OMEGA Laser Users Workshop

Second Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 27, 2010

Tony Brancato performing diagnostic tests on one node of the 72-node cluster

New Dell Computing Cluster (Cyclone)

May 10, 2010

Dale Guy whose helmet design is illuminated by the weld's intense light

First Copper-Welded Planar Cryo Tank

April 26, 2010

$Charles Kellogg and Kevin McGowan examining a prototype diffraction grating$

Diffraction Grating Microscopy

April 12, 2010

Jake Bromage and Tina Oldknow

LLE’s Science and Technology Seminar Series

March 29, 2010

Harvest Zhang working on cryogenic targets

Summer High School Research Program Participant Named Intel Semifinalist

March 15, 2010

A short-pulse high reflector EP mirror (SPHR10)

The First Production Run of a Plasma-Assisted Coating

March 1, 2010

Carolyn Kuranz and Christine Krauland examining SOP (Streaked Optical Pyrometer diagnostic) data

Radiation Hydrodynamics Research on OMEGA

February 15, 2010

Gate Valve Electrical Drive (GVED)

Gate Valve Electrical Drive

February 1, 2010

Phillip V. Sarcione, Randy M. Biegelman, and Paul M. Moskal

DOE/LLE Counterintelligence Program

January 25, 2010

A polymer target with an embedded gold cone

Cryogenic Fill-Tube Target for Fast Ignition Experiments

January 11, 2010

Gold-plated copper components for the Moving Cryostat Upgrade

Components for the Moving Cryostat Upgrade

December 22, 2009

Nuclear Diagnostic Inserters

Nuclear Diagnostic Inserters

December 8, 2009

Garrett Harencak tours the Omega Laser Facility

Top NNSA Official Visits LLE

November 24, 2009

A partially assembled service trailer that includes two cable carriers

OMEGA EP Sidelighter Mechanical Assembly

November 10, 2009

Attendees of ILOW

International Laser Operations Workshop

October 27, 2009

Amplifier housings are lit as OMEGA EP's four beams fire

Amplifier Housings Light Up as OMEGA EP Fires

October 13, 2009

Group photo with Stephen Craxton and high students

Summer High School Research Program

September 29, 2009

Colorful spectral dispersion

Grating Photomask

September 14, 2009

Tiled-grating assemblies (TGA1) is shown reflected off the Fizeau Selection Mirror

OMEGA EP Grating Inspection System

August 31, 2009

Tour of Omega EP

Touring LLE

August 11, 2009

Panoramic view of OMEGA EP

All Eyes on OMEGA EP

July 28, 2009

A grating tile being aligned for evaluation on a Zygo 18-in. phase-shifting interferometer

Evaluating the Grating Tile

July 14, 2009

Molten lead at 800°F is shown being “puddled”, a process originally used to make steel from pig iron

Fabricating the Multi-Channel Carbon Counter

June 22, 2009

Plasma

Dual Plasma Source System

June 9, 2009

Attendees of the OLUG workshop

First Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop

May 22, 2009

National Geographic Energy

LLE Featured in National Geographic

May 5, 2009

NLUF Jet Target

NLUF Jet Target

April 21, 2009

LLE Blood Drive

April 6, 2009

A cone target.

NLUF Jet Target

March 25, 2009

Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer

March 10, 2009

A crew from the Discovery Channel prepares to film in the OMEGA Laser Bay

Discovery Channel at LLE

February 24, 2009

OMAN

OMAN’s Last NIF Polarizer Run

February 6, 2009

Stephen Craxton, Mark Wittman, Rachel Kurchin, Christophe Dorrer, and Jay Amin

Two 2008 LLE Summer High School Research Program Participants Named Intel Semifinalists

January 16, 2009

Oliver Landoas, Jean-Luc Bourgade, and Cédric Courtois

First Joint OMEGA EP Experiments Between LLE and CEA/DIF

January 6, 2009

Neutron Time-of-Flight Detector in Fabrication

Neutron Time-of-Flight Detector in Fabrication

December 9, 2008

Team from University of Michigan

Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics Experiments

November 4, 2008

Target shot

OMEGA EP Raises the Bar for Short-Pulse Energy on Target

October 1, 2008

Inertial confinement fusion cover

Inertial Confinement Fusion: An Introduction

September 12, 2008

Rachel Kurchin looking at spherical target inside a glass hohlraum

Summer Research Program

August 22, 2008

Off-Axis Parabolic Optic installed

Off-Axis Parabolic Optic

August 11, 2008

OMEGA EP target chamber illuminated by green light

OMEGA EP Sidelighter Path is Active

July 28, 2008

OMEGA EP tiled grating assemblies

OMEGA EP Large Aperture Grating Tiling Development Team

July 16, 2008

Honoring Captain Steven J. Loucks, retirement

Captain Steven J. Loucks Retires

July 7, 2008

NIF Preamplifier Module (NIF PAM)

NIF Preamplifier Module (PAM) Arrives at LLE

May 21, 2008

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