Nova was a high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, United States, in 1984 which conducted advanced...
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Inertial confinement fusion (redirect from Laser fusion)
was experimented with in the 24 beam OMEGA laser and the NOVETTE laser, which was followed by the Nova laser design with 10 times Shiva's energy, the first...
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Look up Nova, nova, or novas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A nova is an exploding star. Nova or NOVA may also refer to: Nova (fairy), in the U.S...
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today. OMEGA held the record for highest energy laser (per pulse) from 1999 (after the Nova laser's dismantling) to 2005, when the first 8 beams of the...
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the current generation of lasers for time scales on the order of picoseconds. One such laser is Lawrence Livermore's Nova laser, which achieved a power...
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compressing targets with lasers, leading to a major new device being constructed to address these problems, the Nova laser. The basic idea of any ICF...
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National Ignition Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion research lasers)
distributed and symmetrical. Experimental systems, including the OMEGA and Nova lasers, validated this approach. The NIF's high power supports a much larger...
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History of nuclear fusion (section Laser)
laser systems including Argus, Cyclops, Janus, the neodymium-doped glass (Nd:glass) laser Long Path, Shiva laser, and the 10 beam Nova in 1984. Nova would...
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recycled parts from the dismantled Shiva and Argus lasers and borrowed parts from the future Nova laser. Its main intended purpose was to validate the proposed...
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Field Laboratory LINUS (fusion experiment) Magnetized target fusion Nova (laser) P.J. Turchi and W.L. Baker, Generation of high-energy plasmas by electromagnetic...
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