Novette was a two beam neodymium glass (phosphate glass) testbed laser built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in about 15 months throughout 1981...
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Inertial confinement fusion (redirect from Laser fusion)
was experimented with in the 24 beam OMEGA laser and the NOVETTE laser, which was followed by the Nova laser design with 10 times Shiva's energy, the first...
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used next (for the first time at LLNL) on Shiva's successor, the Novette laser. Every laser-driven ICF system after Shiva has used this technique. On January...
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and Novette laser) and subsequently used to enhance laser energy to target plasma coupling efficiency in experiments on nearly all subsequent laser inertial...
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Project Excalibur (section Lasers)
the Novette laser as an energy source, on 13 July 1984 the system worked for the first time. The team calculated that the system produced laser amplification...
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1970s, with construction following shortly starting with the testbed Novette laser to validate the basic beamline and frequency multiplier design. This...
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History of nuclear fusion (section Laser)
the federal budget. Laser fusion progress: in 1983, the NOVETTE laser was completed. The following December, the ten-beam NOVA laser was finished. Five...
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achieved. The NOVETTE laser at LLNL comes on line and is used as a test bed for the next generation of ICF lasers, specifically the NOVA laser. 1984 The huge...
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List of fusion experiments (section Laser-driven)
obtained by irradiating a millimeter-sized solid pellet with a nanosecond laser or ion pulse. The outer layer of the pellet is ablated, providing a reaction...
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This is a list of laser topics. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Physics portal M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles...
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