News - Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Laser target shot photograph.

A Milestone Achievement: Omega Laser Facility’s 50,000th Shot

November 17, 2025

Grating Compressor Chamber (GCC) optics in the MTW-OPAL laser facility on Monday, September 18, 2023.

Di Piazza, International Team Win Prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for Quantum Research

November 14, 2025

Photo of Danae Polsin.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Danae Polsin Receives 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award

November 5, 2025

Photo of Alex Chin

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Alex Chin Awarded 2026 GCCM Student and Dissertation Research Award by APS

November 4, 2025

Blue-toned watercolor image of Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.

Chirped-Pulse Amplification at 40

October 29, 2025

Photo of LLE Scientist David Turnbull.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

LLE Scientist David Turnbull Receives APS Fellowship

October 10, 2025

Photo of 2025 Undergraduate Education Program students and advisors

A Successful Summer for the 2025 Undergraduate Education Program

September 22, 2025

BEST 2025 participants.

BEST Program Celebrates Five Years of Inspiring STEM Futures

September 3, 2025

Schematic depicting the flying-focus technique using a chromatic lens.

LLE Scientists Co-author New Publication in Optica

Shown is a range of experimentally relevant densities and temperatures used in DFT simulations.

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

LLE recipients of the 2024 Nuclear Fusion Journal Award.

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

Attendees of the 2025 OLUG Workshop at LLE.

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

Photo of Annie Maloney.

Annie Maloney Wins 2025 Stoddard Prize for Best Senior Thesis

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

Portrait of Petros Tzeferacos.

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

January 21, 2025

Group photo of the Cyro Fill Systems Group in lab attire next to computers and lab equipment.

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

December 16, 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

Portrait of Jason Puth.

Jason Puth Takes Helm as Omega Facility Division Director

Portrait of JJ Ruby

LLE Alumnus JJ Ruby Supports Houston Astros with Physics and Engineering

Varchas Gopalaswamy Appointed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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

LLE Featured in May 2024 Edition of Laser Focus World

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

Retiree being handed an award with party attendees sitting and clapping in the background.

LLE Celebrates the Retirement of Distinguished Scientist Vladimir Glebov

Portrait of Michelle Marshall.

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

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

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

LLE Featured on News 10NBC

January 1, 2024

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

Screen capture of YouTube video for Vox Science

LLE Featured in New Viral Video

November 16, 2023

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

September 25, 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

Portrait of Maria Gatu Johnson

Maria Gatu Johnson Promoted to Principal Research Scientist

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

Full portrait of Suxing Hu.

Suxing Hu Appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Portraits of Jay Eastman on left and Barukh Yaakobi on right.

In Memoriam

Render of LLE's Office and Lab Expansion

The Current Status of the LLE Office and Laboratory Building Expansion

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

Stephen D. Jacobs 2023 Memorial Lecture

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

Three photo collage. Top left LLE director with retiree. Top right, a portrait of retiree and photograph taken by retiree displayed on an easel. Bottom, group photo of retirement attendees.

Longtime LLE Photographer, Eugene Kowaluk, Retires

February 13, 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

Collage of four photos. Top photo shows fire extinguishers being inspected. Along the bottom has three photos with close-up shots of fire extinguishers on the left and right corners with center photo of a fire extinguisher demonstration.

Periodic Fire Extinguisher Inspections

November 11, 2022

Group photo of Reetam Paul in center with thesis committee

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

October 24, 2022

Rendered image of new building for LLE on top with Chris Deeney and other speakers posing with shovels on bottom.

Groundbreaking for the LLE Building Expansion

August 22, 2022

Mike Campbell holding bobble head with a dinosaur body and human head in his likeness.

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

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

Implementation of the International GHS Standard to Chemicals

Portrait of Chris Deeney, interim Director of University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics photographed at the LLE March 29, 2022. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester.

Christopher Deeney Appointed New Director of the Laser Lab

Sam Miller and his thesis committee.

Sam Miller Defends Thesis and Joins LLE

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

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

White House Fusion Energy Summit

Four images of safety inspections in OMEGA EP.

Monthly Safety Inspections

LLE Representation in the Genesee Staff Council

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

Petros Tzeferacos explains FLASH simulations.

The University of Rochester Welcomes the Flash Center for Computational Science

January 18, 2022

Chris Deeney in cleanroom attire standing in OMEGA EP.

Chris Deeney Tours OMEGA EP

January 11, 2022