Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory



November

  • New Laser Pump Wins R&D 100 Award

October

  • HAPLS Completes Phase 1 Energy-Ramping Campaign
  • Shaping NIF’s Beams for Direct-Drive Experiments

September

  • A Pioneering Betatron X-Ray Experiment

August

  • New ARC Front End Proves Its Mettle

July

  • Two NIF&PS Technologies Named R&D 100 Finalists
  • ELI Beamlines Officials Tour HAPLS Project

June

  • Measuring NIF Implosions with a Bang
  • Dante: Measuring NIF’s Inferno

May

  • HAPLS Team Reaches Key Milestone
  • Supplying the ‘Life-Blood’ of Science

April

  • Promising New X-Ray Microscope Poses Logistics Challenges
  • Deploying ARC Controls: a Major Undertaking

March

  • Highest-power Laser Diode Arrays Commissioned
  • Developing Algorithms for Laser-based 3D Metal Printing

February

  • Keeping NIF Optics on the Job
  • Two-Joule ‘Gigashot’ Laser for HAPLS Commissioned

January

  • First Laser-Compton X Rays Produced
  • NIF Fuel Gain Named a ‘Top Breakthrough’ of 2014