OMEGA EP Firing Five Beams

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

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LaserNetUS, a network of facilities operating ultra-powerful lasers, including the Omega Laser Facility, received $18 million in funding from the Department of Energy. In its first year of user operations, LaserNetUS awarded beamtime for 49 user experiments to researchers from 25 different institutions. Over 200 user scientists including well over 100 students and post-docs have participated in experiments so far.  The network and future upgrades to LaserNetUS facilities will provide new opportunities for U.S. and international scientists in discovery science and in the development of new technologies.

OMEGA EP Firing Five Beams
Seen in the upper left are four beamlines of OMEGA EP firing during a target shot. Riding along with those four beamlines is the 4-omega probe illuminated in its housing in the lower right and next to the grating compressor chamber. The green irradiation stems from the frequency conversion of the primary infrared beam to the second harmonic or 527 nm. Remotely triggered, the image was captured from the top of the target area structure with no bay lights on.