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SAINT-GERMAIN EN LAYE, France, April 26, 2024 — Exail, a high-tech industrial group specializing in photonics technologies, has signed a contract with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to provide more than 60 dual-stage modulators to the equip the high-fidelity pulse shaping (HiFiPS) system at the National Ignition Facility (NIF)’s master oscillator room. This is the second optical component ordered from Exail to enhance NIF’s capabilities. The NIF target bay at LLNL. Exail’s previously supplied optical
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DRESDEN, Germany, March 25, 2024 — A research project undertaken by the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) aims to overhaul an analytical tool used to evaluate laser fusion. The work is being funded by the European Union...
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Apr 3, 2023 — It is a rare event when a successful experiment in basic research makes it to the evening news. In December 2022, the U.S. secretary of energy announced a breakthrough in laser-based nuclear fusion. The news was covered in all major media around the...
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 7, 2022 — U.S. national laboratories will see an infusion of cash from the Inflation Reduction Act, amounting to $1.5 billion to fund facility upgrades, modernized infrastructure, and deferred maintenance projects. According to U.S. Secretary of Energy...
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Laser-Based Ultrasound Finds Defects in Metal 3D Printing
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Laser Blazes New Milestone Toward Self-Sustaining Fusion Energy
LIVERMORE, Calif., Feb. 3, 2022 — Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (LLNL NIF) said that, for the first time, physicists have engineered and tested a laser system in which fusion itself — as opposed to external heating...
Biobased Method Could Extract Domestic Supply of Rare-Earth Elements
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 26, 2021 — An eco-friendly way to extract and separate rare earth elements (REEs) from unconventional sources has been demonstrated by researchers at Penn State and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The method relies on a bacterial protein that is...
Facility at SLAC to Pair Petawatt System with X-Ray FEL
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 7, 2021 — A new facility at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will combine petawatt lasers with an x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) to further the scientific understanding of matter in extreme conditions. Coupled to...
Optical Measurement Reduces Vibration in High-Power Lasers
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Laser-Driven Semiconductor Switch Pushes Speed Capabilities of Next-Generation Communications
LIVERMORE, Calif., June 23, 2021 — A laser-driven semiconductor switch design can theoretically achieve speeds and voltages higher than existing photoconductive devices — potentially enabling communication speeds beyond 5G if the switch were to be miniaturized and incorporated...
Deep Learning Bolsters Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration Study
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Image Recovery Method Improves Compressive Sensing, Phase Retrieval
LIVERMORE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2021 — Research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has yielded a method of compressive image recovery that is trained on patches of images, rather than full-size images. The method, called GPP (generative patch prior), is able to recover a...
3D Printing Offers Versatility in Optical Design
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