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The Novette target chamber (metal sphere with diagnostic devices sticking out), which was reused from the Shiva project and two newly built laser chains visible in background.
Novette was a two beam neodymium glass (phosphate glass) testbed laser built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in about 15 months throughout 1981 and 1982 and was completed in January 1983. Novette was made using 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 design and expected performance of the then planned Nova laser. In addition to being used for the further study of enhanced laser to target plasma energy coupling utilizing frequency tripled light and examining its benefits with respect to inertial confinement fusion, Novette was also used in the world's first laboratory demonstration of an x-ray laser in 1984.
Novette was a two beam neodymium glass (phosphate glass) testbed laser built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in about 15 months throughout 1981...
was experimented with in the 24 beam OMEGA laser and the NOVETTElaser, which was followed by the Nova laser design with 10 times Shiva's energy, the first...
used next (for the first time at LLNL) on Shiva's successor, the Novettelaser. Every laser-driven ICF system after Shiva has used this technique. On January...
the Novettelaser as an energy source, on 13 July 1984 the system worked for the first time. The team calculated that the system produced laser amplification...
and Novettelaser) and subsequently used to enhance laser energy to target plasma coupling efficiency in experiments on nearly all subsequent laser inertial...
the federal budget. Laser fusion progress: in 1983, the NOVETTElaser was completed. The following December, the ten-beam NOVA laser was finished. Five...
achieved. The NOVETTElaser 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...
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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experiments on the OMEGA laser and Novettelaser validated the use of frequency tripling KDP crystals to convert the laser light into the ultraviolet...
laser. Both designs are under research at very large scales, most notably the ITER tokamak in France and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser in...
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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