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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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