• direct drive, laser-induced fusion, fundamental plasma physics and astrophysics using the OMEGA Laser Facility. In June 1995, OMEGA became the world's...
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  • Omega (Russian: омега) (1965-) was a Soviet program for developing high-power laser weapons for air defense purposes, similar to the Terra-3 laser. The...
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    The active laser medium (also called a gain medium or lasing medium) is the source of optical gain within a laser. The gain results from the stimulated...
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  • Mars orbiter OmegA, a cancelled space launch vehicle Omega (navigation system), the first worldwide radio navigation system OMEGA laser, at the Laboratory...
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    A laser rangefinder, also known as a laser telemeter, is a rangefinder that uses a laser beam to determine the distance to an object. The most common form...
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    An excimer laser, sometimes more correctly called an exciplex laser, is a form of ultraviolet laser which is commonly used in the production of microelectronic...
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    1980 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...
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  • If this system is excited by a laser with a frequency ω L {\displaystyle \omega _{L}} close to this value, the laser detuning is then defined as: Δ ω...
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    Terra-3 (redirect from Terra (laser))
    shuttle was illuminated by the Terra-3. Omega (laser) 1K17 Szhatie Sokol Eshelon Peresvet "Soviets could have laser able to blind US satellites", Gadsden...
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    Semiconductor lasers or laser diodes play an important part in our everyday lives by providing cheap and compact-size lasers. They consist of complex multi-layer...
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    {\displaystyle \omega _{o}} is the frequency of the transition, and δ {\displaystyle \delta } is the detuning or difference between the laser frequency and...
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    research into the fast ignition approach on smaller machines like the Omega laser in the US demonstrated a number of problems with the concept. Another...
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  • E_{\text{r}}=E_{0}\left[R(\omega )e^{i\omega t}+R(\omega +\omega _{\mathrm {m} }){\frac {\beta }{2}}e^{i(\omega +\omega _{\mathrm {m} })t}-R(\omega -\omega _{\mathrm {m}...
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  • i ϕ ( ω ) {\displaystyle E(\omega )={\sqrt {S(\omega )}}e^{i\phi (\omega )}} The quantity S ( ω ) {\displaystyle S(\omega )} is the power spectral density...
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  • Plasma Dynamic Lab) Magnetized target (AFRL, LANL) Magneto-inertial (OMEGA laser, LLE, Rochester) Levitated dipole [superconducting] (LDX, MIT, PSGC)...
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    Optical parametric oscillator (category Laser applications)
    laser wave (called "pump") with frequency ω p {\displaystyle \omega _{p}} into two output waves of lower frequency ( ω s , ω i {\displaystyle \omega _{s}...
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  • spectroscopy: a pump photon, of the angular frequency ω p {\displaystyle \omega _{p}} , which is scattered by a molecule has some small probability of inducing...
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    ring laser cavity, it is helpful to discuss the physics of the laser process in a laser setup with continuous generation of light. As the laser excitation...
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    prototype behavior of waves, SHG is widely used, for example, in doubling laser frequencies. SHG was initially discovered as a nonlinear optical process...
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  • Chirped pulse amplification (category Laser science)
    the Institute for Laser Engineering at Osaka University, the OMEGA and OMEGA EP lasers at the University of Rochester's Lab for Laser Energetics and the...
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  • principle of all lasers. Quantitatively, gain is a measure of the ability of a laser medium to increase optical power. However, overall a laser consumes energy...
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    The Omega Seamaster is a line of automatic winding mechanical diving watches from Omega with a history that can be traced back to the original water-resistant...
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    potential E i {\displaystyle E_{i}} in a linearly polarized laser with frequency ω {\displaystyle \omega } is given by W P P T = | C n ∗ l ∗ | 2 6 π f l m E i...
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  • 0\rangle }}={\sqrt {\frac {\hbar }{2m\omega _{z}}}}} is the spread of the zero-point wavefunction, ω z {\displaystyle \omega _{z}} is the frequency of the static...
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    construction of the first laser by Theodore Maiman. However, some nonlinear effects were discovered before the development of the laser. The theoretical basis...
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  • {\displaystyle \omega _{a}} is 4.1×104 THz. The ionization rate of a hydrogen atom in an alternating electric field, like that of a laser, can be treated...
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    experimentally on the OMEGA laser and others, proving effective. Although the process is only about 50% efficient, and half the original laser power is lost,...
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  • examples. Laser Mégajoule in France was developed in 2002 and upgraded in 2014. Omega Laser was first built in 1992 at the University of Rochester. Omega-EP...
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  • v = ω − ω L 2 π ; ω L {\displaystyle v={\tfrac {\omega -\omega L}{2\pi }};\quad \omega L} is laser generation frequency; ( 11 ) A p a = D 0 P , B = (...
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    Omega Force (Japanese: オメガフォース) (stylised as ω-Force) is a Japanese video game developer and a division of Koei Tecmo, founded in 1996 by Akihiro Suzuki...
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