Lasers & Optics

A high-explosive experiment at the National Ignition Facility expands understanding of material characteristics.

Researchers demonstrate the ability to generate metasurfaces that can be tailored to satisfy large-area antireflective applications for bandpass or broadband needs.

LLNL researchers have reported a significant advance in broadband antireflective coatings applied to optics using nanostructure metasurface technology.

One current and two former Lawrence Livermore scientists have been inducted into the Laboratory’s Entrepreneurs’ Hall of Fame.

A White House summit convened leaders in fusion from government, industry, and academia, including Laboratory Director Kim Budil, to discuss a strategy for developing commercial fusion energy.

Nanosatellites holding tiny Livermore-developed telescopes take thousands of images of space and Earth in an ongoing Laboratory–industry partnership.

Livermore researchers and their colleagues are exploring ways to build laser optics from plasma.

Livermore’s decades of leadership in developing high-energy lasers is being tapped to provide a key component of a major upgrade to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source.

Livermore's Christopher Stolz has been elected as a fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

For the fourth consecutive year, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2022.