Lasers & Optics

LLNL physicist Cole Pruitt has been awarded the 2025 Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers in theoretical nuclear physics. 

Optimax Space Systems have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), expanding production of LLNL’s next-generation space domain awareness technology. 

LLNL scientists develop a 3D quantum ghost imaging microscope — the first of its kind.

LLNL scientists and Purdue University collaborators develop and demonstrate a high-throughput, automated mass spectrometry platform.

In a recent study, published in Nature, an international team including LLNL researchers experimentally measured the structure of liquid carbon for the first time.

In a new study LLNL researchers and collaborators triggered a slow decomposition of a high explosive and measured the effects on the molecules within it. 

Since the 1970s, the Janus laser, now part of JLF, has served as an experimental proving ground to LLNL laser and fusion programs and the broader high-energy-density and laser science communities.

By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, LLNL researchers have produced the brightest X-ray source to date.

LLNL’s mission-focused work advancing national security by developing laser technology for X-ray lithography and satellite imaging research leads to technology spin-offs with commercial importance. 

A new research partnership led by LLNL aims to lay the groundwork for the next evolution of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, centered around a Lab-developed driver system.