2009 - lle.rochester.edu

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LABORATORY for LASER ENERGETICS

2009

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Independence Day ObservedUniversity Holiday Independence Day

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Participants in LLE’s 20th Summer High School Research Program are shown in the OMEGA EP Laser Bay and at work on their projects. (Below) Dr. Stephen Craxton, Program Director, with Ms. Jane Bowdler, recipient of the 2008 William D. Ryan Inspirational Teacher Award.High School Program

LLE Golf Tournamentat Mill Creek

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Target-implosion images from the first joint OMEGA and OMEGA EP target shots. Watchstanders from both the OMEGA and the OMEGA EP shot crews are briefed for a day of joint facility shots (bottom, center).Joint Operations

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Autumnal Equinox


A view inside the OMEGA EP target chamber shows target diagnostics and engineers performing final checks on the off-axis parabola inserter/manipulator.

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Off-Axis Parabola Inserter/Manipulator

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Labor DayUniversity Holiday

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LLE Golf Tournamentat Bristol Harbour

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The OMEGA EP off-axis parabola inserter/manipulator is assembled prior to installation on the target chamber; this machine facilitates precise focusing of the short-pulse beam.OMEGA EP Short-Pulse Transport

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Thanksgiving DayUniversity Holiday University Holiday


A NIF preamplifier module (PAM) is in preparation for deployment on the OMEGA EP Laser System to test, among other things, polar-drive beam-smoothing techniques such as dynamic bandwidth reduction (left) and 1-D Multi-FM SSD (right) for possible implementation on the NIF.

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51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics in Atlanta, GA

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OMEGA Target Viewing System imagers (above, upper photos) and illuminators (above, lower photos) create high magnification images within the OMEGA target chamber. These instruments are used to align and characterize targets at chamber center.

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The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) of the University of Rochester is a unique national resource for research and education in science and technology. The Rochester area has a history of innovation and provides a unique setting for LLE within a technologically sophisticated community. Established in 1970 as a center for the investigation of the interaction of intense radiation with matter, the Laboratory has a five-fold mission:

1.1to conduct implosion experiments and basic physics experiments in support of the National Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program;

2. to develop new laser and materials technologies;

3. to provide graduate and undergraduate education in electro-optics, high-power lasers, high-energy-density physics, plasma physics, and nuclear fusion technology;

4. to operate the National Laser Users’ Facility (NLUF); and

5. to conduct research and development in advanced technology related to high-energy-density phenomena.

The 2009 LLE Calendar contains information about many of the Laboratory’s programs.We hope that you enjoy using your copy of the LLE Calendar and wish you a productive and fulfilling 2010.

Photography by Eugene Kowaluk

Mission Statement

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