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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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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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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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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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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the long path, the Shiva laser, and the Nova. Laser advances included frequency-tripling crystals that transformed infrared laser beams into ultraviolet...
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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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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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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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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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The Orion Laser Facility (also known as the Orion Laser) is a high power laser facility based at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) on the former RAF...
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laser at LLNL comes on line and is used as a test bed for the next generation of ICF lasers, specifically the NOVA laser. 1984 The huge 10 beam NOVA laser...
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Interaction of Supernova Remnants with Interstellar Clouds: Experiments on the Nova Laser". The Astrophysical Journal. 583 (1): 245–259. Bibcode:2003ApJ...583....
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performance of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) devices such as the Nova laser or proposed particle beam "drivers". Versions of LASNEX have been used...
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A laser harp is an electronic musical user interface and laser lighting display. It projects several laser beams played by the musician by blocking them...
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shootings and set fires at sixteen locations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing twenty-two people and injuring three others before he was...
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This was addressed on the Nova laser of the 1980s, which was designed with the specific intent of producing ignition. Nova did produce large quantities...
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Chirped pulse amplification (category Laser science)
(CPA) is a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse up to the petawatt level, with the laser pulse being stretched out temporally and spectrally...
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List of fusion experiments (section Laser-driven)
obtained by irradiating a millimeter-sized solid pellet with a nanosecond laser or ion pulse. The outer layer of the pellet is ablated, providing a reaction...
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a locked door, Nova takes the guitar, holds it like a rifle, and fires a laser beam into the door, forcing it open. Once inside, Nova leaps on stage where...
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List of light sources (redirect from Laser excited phosphor)
states Gas laser – Laser in which electricity is discharged through gas Ion laser – Type of gas laser Laser diode – Semiconductor laser Laser excited phosphor –...
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apart by a laser during the War of Kings storyline. Mantid – Matu Makalani – Makalani is one of the humans drafted as a Corpsman in the Nova Corps by the...
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Holography (redirect from Laser holograms)
hologram, which can show virtual objects or scenes. Optical holography needs a laser light to record the light field. The reproduced light field can generate...
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HiPER (redirect from High Power laser Energy Research facility)
The High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER), is a proposed experimental laser-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device undergoing preliminary...
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Laser 558 was an offshore pirate radio station launched in May 1984 using disc jockeys from the US. It broadcast from the Panama-registered ship MV Communicator...
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into lasers for inertial confinement ICF fusion. He played a major role in the design and construction of the Shiva, Novette, Nova, and NIF Laser systems...
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Nova is an American science documentary television series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS. Many of the programs in this list were not originally produced...
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Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-KPCOM) is a private medical school in Davie, Florida. It is an academic...
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the LLNL. In 1990, he became head of the Nova Laser program to demonstrate the use of a 1 to 2 megajoule laser for inertial fusion. After the ICF research...
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