Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory



December

  • “Adiabat-shaped” Pulse Design Improves NIF Implosions

November

  • Experiments Show Molybdenum Remains Solid under High Pressures
  • NIF Research Highlighted at Plasma Physics Meeting

October

  • Protecting Mirror Coatings Against Laser Damage
  • Shaped Laser Pulse Experiments Boost Understanding of NIF Performance

September

  • NIF Highlighted at Inertial Fusion Conference

August

  • ‘Nexawatt’ Lasers Discussed at Ultrafast Optics Conference
  • Simulations Help in Repairing Optics Damage

July

  • Researchers Reveal New Electron Ring Formations
  • Uranium Hohlraums Boost NIF’s Performance
  • When Beryllium Loses Its Strength
  • NIF-Related Papers Top Physics of Plasmas’ Most-cited List

June

  • Assessing the Damage Resistance of ARC Gratings
  • Diamond Capsules in Near-vacuum Hohlraums

May

  • Taming NIF Stagnation-Phase Instabilities

April

  • Near-Vacuum Hohlraums Show Promise
  • Rugby Hohlraums Join the Ignition Scrum
  • Thinner Capsules Yield Faster Implosions
  • Chris Barty Discusses the ‘Nexawatt’ Laser at SPIE Conference

March

  • Fine-tuning NIF Laser Pulses
  • Study Could Lead to Fusion Insights
  • Jamie King Reviews Laser Safety at DOE Labs
  • Using Infrared Laser Beams to Repair Optics Damage

February

  • Diamond Capsules Produce Promising Results
  • Probing Energy Loss in High-Rep-Rate Lasers
  • Determining Structural Evolution under Pressure
  • Studying Effects of Target ‘Tents’ on NIF Implosions
  • New NIF Implosion Models Reduce Discrepancies

January

  • New Research Re-Creates Planet Formation in the Laboratory
  • Shedding Light on Cosmic Magnets
  • Chris Barty Talk Helps Launch International Year of Light