Lasers & Optics

Advanced Radiographic Capability (ARC) short-pulse laser have produced protons with energies about 10 times higher than previous experience would have predicted.

The Wolter x-ray microscope, the optic significantly improves image resolution and throughput compared to conventional x-ray imaging systems.

Scientists at the National Ignition Facility successively produced record numbers of fusion neutrons.

The Laboratory is advancing CubeSat technology.

NIF’s laser optics damage mitigation program is one example of how the private sector is benefiting from Livermore’s Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory.

Laser Institute honors safety officer Jamie King with R. James Rockwell Jr. Educational Achievement Award.

Researchers have discovered an efficient mechanism for laser ablation that could help pave the way to the use of less costly lasers in many industrial laser processing applications.

We created this new video animation to explain how the Advanced Radiographic Capability (ARC) laser works.

In this study, we quantitatively compare the effectiveness and efficiency of mid-IR (4.6 μm) versus far-IR (10.6 μm) lasers in mitigating damage growth on fused silica surfaces.

We present a compact modular apparatus with a flexible design that will be operated at the DiProI beamline of the Fermi@Elettra free electron laser (FEL) for performing static and time-resolved coherent diffraction imaging experiments, taking advantage of the full coherence and variable polarization of the short seeded FEL pulses.