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    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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    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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  • 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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