Visit LLNL’s Virtual Discovery Center

While LLNL Discovery Center visits remain on pause, you can learn more about NIF’s Target Chamber, hohlraums, optics, and lasers by clicking through our interactive Virtual Discovery Center. Read more...

Bridging the Idea-to-Industry Gap

A neodymium-doped fiber amplifier that could double the capacity of information-carrying fiber-optic cables is among the many LLNL-developed inventions awarded technology commercialization funding.

Summer Scholar Intern Pursues Her Passion for Optics

Natalie Shultz, a NIF&PS Summer Scholar Program intern for the past two years, discovered her passion—optics—in a high school physics class. And she’s made it the centerpiece of her studies.

NIF Diagnostics Played Key Role in Fusion Milestone

The National Ignition Facility (NIF)’s highly specialized and sophisticated measuring instruments known as diagnostics were integral to the record-setting inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiment that produced more than 1.3 million joules (MJ) of fusion energy.

Building to a Solution: The Elements of a Fusion Breakthrough

First in a series of articles describing aspects of the National Ignition Facility’s record-breaking 1.3-megajoule experiment.

‘Hybrid’ Experiments Drive NIF Toward Ignition

Designing the experiment that brought NIF to the threshold of ignition was a multiyear problem-solving effort aimed at firing enough laser energy into the hot spot at the center of a NIF target capsule to trigger a self-sustaining burn wave of fusion reactions.

NIF&PS Scientists Earn Early, Mid-Career Honors

LLNL's seventh annual early and mid-career awards program included five scientists whose work has made a significant impact on NIF & Photon Science research.

New Research Looks at Process of Magnetic Flux Generation in ICF Implosions

LLNL researchers now have a better understanding of how strong the magnetic fields are during an inertial confinement fusion implosion at NIF.