Lasers & Optics

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.

The next generation of high-repetition-rate, short-pulse lasers promises to accelerate and advance high-energy-density and photon science.

Third in a series of articles describing aspects of the National Ignition Facility’s record-breaking 1.3-megajoule experiment.

Second in a series of articles describing aspects of the National Ignition Facility’s record-breaking 1.3-megajoule experiment.

First in a series of articles describing aspects of the National Ignition Facility’s record-breaking 1.3-megajoule experiment.