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Mar 13, 2024 · Science. 13 Mar 2024 1:34 am AEDT. Federal Funds Approved for OMEGA Laser Lab Upgrade. University of Rochester. The funding enables LLE's national security efforts in inertial confinement fusion, high-energy-density physics research, and laser technology development.
OMEGA 60. The OMEGA laser has been operational since 1995 and is one of LLE’s primary research tools. It stands 10 meters tall and is approximately 70 meters in length. OMEGA’s 60 laser beams focus up to 40,000 joules of energy onto a target that measures less than 1 millimeter in diameter in approximately one billionth of a second.
Mar 12, 2024 · The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) will receive $99.4 million in federal funding from the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) program for its Omega Laser Facility for the 2024 fiscal year.
Oct 28, 2020 · Lindsey Valich | Senior Communications Officer, Science and Engineering. October 28, 2020. The OMEGA EP laser at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics—a four-beam, high-energy and high-intensity laser—is one of the most powerful in the world.
- Short Pulse Laser Capabilities
- Long Pulse Laser Capabilities
- Target and Diagnostic Systems
- Omega User Support
- Facility Access
OMEGA EP beams 1 and 2 can be compressed for short pulse operation. Currently these beams can provide 1053 nm light with up to 0.5 kJ in 0.7 ps, 1.25 kJ in 10 ps and 2 kJ in 100 ps, with a best focus of ~30 µm diameter containing 80% of laser energy. The peak laser intensity is above 6x1019 W/cm2, with an intensity contrast of approximately 1010. O...
All four OMEGA EP beams can provide long-pulse (0.1 to 10 ns for each individual beam) operation to the OMEGA EP target chamber. In this mode, the beams provide frequency-tripled light (351 nm) in individually-configured pulse shapes, each containing up to 5 kJ. Contact the facility for all previously-used pulse shapes; custom pulse shapes can be p...
OMEGA EP additionally provides users a wide range of flexible diagnostic systems. Three dedicated Target Positioning Systems (TPS) enable control for multi-target geometries. Five Ten-Inch Manipulators (TIMs) provide a standardized fielding platform compatible with over 60 instruments, in addition to about 20 fixed-port diagnostics. Commonly used t...
The Omega Laser Facility at UR/LLE is the largest university-based national laser user’s facility in the world. UR/LLE has over 40 years of experience supporting experiments of outside users including external academic users at its world-class laser facilities. OMEGA EP offers LaserNetUS users high availability and experimental effectiveness (> 95%...
Requests for all visits by users of the Omega Laser Facility must be submitted online by filling out the LLE Visitor Information Form available at the LLE home page (https://www.lle.rochester.edu/) on the “About” tab, “Visitor Information” section. Visitors who are not citizens of the United States must submit their request 60 days in advance of th...
Mar 18, 2022 · ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics’s OMEGA Laser Facility is getting more funding as part of the spending package that was passed...
Jan 31, 2019 · Bob Marcotte. January 31, 2019. This was the view inside the OMEGA laser when Laboratory for Laser Energetics researchers succeeded in achieving a record fusion yield when 60 lasers converged on a fuel capsule. The OMEGA laser is the most powerful laser system found at any academic institution.
