Nova laser

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Maintenace on the NOVA target chamber.

The Nova laser target chamber during alignment and initial installation (ca. early 1980's).

The NOVA laser was a laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1984 and which conducted advanced inertial confinement fusion experiments until its dismantling in 1999. The NOVA laser was capable of delivering approximately 100 kilojoules of infrared light at 1054 nanometers or 40 kilojoules of frequency tripled ultraviolet light at 351 nanometers (the third harmonic of the Nd:Glass fundamental line at 1054 nm) in a pulse duration of about 2 to 4 nanoseconds and thus was capable of producing an ultraviolet pulse power on target in the range of a few tens of terawatts.

Fusion target implosion on NOVA.

Repairs on the NOVA laser's beamlines

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Magnetic confinement: Tokamak - Spheromak - Stellarator - Reversed field pinch - Field-Reversed Configuration - Levitated Dipole Inertial confinement: Laser driven - Z-pinch - Bubble fusion Cold fusion: Muon-catalyzed fusion Inertial electrostatic confinement: Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor Pyroelectric fusion
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