Category: Laser Fusion

At U of R: New Data on Laser-Plasma Instabilities Could Improve Predictive Models for Fusion Experiments

New Data on Laser-Plasma Instabilities Could Improve Predictive Models for Fusion Experiments ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2019 — New research from the University of Rochester could lead to more accurate computer models for simulations of laser-driven implosions. Researchers at the the university’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), along with their colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National...

November 2, 2018InLaser Fusion, Lasers, New York Photonics, NYPhotonics, Photonicsno comments

Rochester’s LLE Joins Nationwide High Intensity Laser Network

To help foster leadership in the application of high-intensity lasers, the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is partnering with eight other high-intensity laser facilities across the country in a new national research network called LaserNetUS. The collaboration, which includes University of Texas at Austin, Ohio State, Colorado State, Michigan, Nebraska-Lincoln, SLAC National...

March 27, 2018InEconomic Development, Education & Training, Industry Research, Laser Fusion, Lasers, NYPhotonics, Optics, Photonicsno comments

Omnibus bill restores funding for UR Laser Lab, RIT institute

Tucked into the omnibus federal budget bill released Wednesday is the funding needed to keep the University of Rochester’s laser lab open and operating. The $75 million is an increase over the $68 million in federal funding awarded to the facility this year. New York’s Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand jointly announced the funding,...

January 19, 2018InLaser Fusion, Lasers, New York Photonics, New York State Optics, NYPhotonics, Opticsno comments

LLE Research Earns Rochester Teens Spots in Semifinals of Prestigious Science Competition

Two Rochester teens have been named scholars in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search (formerly the Intel Science Talent Search) for research projects they carried out last summer at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE). Nikhil Bose of Pittsford Sutherland High School and Yujia Yang from Brighton High School are among the 300...

September 29, 2017InLaser Fusion, Lasers, New York Photonics, New York State Optics, NYPhotonics, Photonics, RRPC Member Newsno comments

Robert McCrory Stepping Down at LLE

Professor Robert L. McCrory, a physicist and scientific leader who has shepherded the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics to international prominence during the past 35 years, will retire from the directorship on October 1, the beginning of the federal government’s fiscal year. McCrory, who holds the title of University Professor—one of just eight...

June 21, 2015InBiophotonics, Fraunhofer IOF, Laser Fusion, Lasers, New York Photonics, New York State Optics, Optics, Photonics, RRPC Member Newsno comments

Laser World of Photonics, Munich

“Laser Munich” begins tomorrow. The largest photonics conference in Europe. NYPhotonics is here! Adam Dunn and Jürgen Kantner in front of a statue of Joseph von Fraunhofer, the famed Bavarian and one of the fathers of modern optics.

October 31, 2014InLaser Fusion, Lasers, New York State Optics, Photonics2 comments

In Rochester, New York, Experiments Mimic Cosmic Explosions and Planetary Cores

Researchers in Rochester, NY are finding ways to understand some of the mysteries of space without leaving earth. Using high-intensity lasers at the University of Rochester’s OMEGA EP Facility focused on targets smaller than a pencil’s eraser, they conducted experiments to create colliding jets of plasma knotted by plasma filaments and self-generated magnetic fields, reaching...

August 5, 2014InLaser Fusion, New York State Optics, NYPhotonics, Opticsno comments

Logos Technologies / LLE Team to Provide High-Energy Laser to Washington State University

Logos Technologies, Fairfax, Virginia, in partnership with the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has received an award to design, build and install a sophisticated high-energy laser at the Washington State University-led Dynamic Compression Sector at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. The Logos Technologies-led team will provide a laser-driven shock compression capability...