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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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