Nova was a high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, United States, in 1984 which conducted advanced inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments until its dismantling in 1999. Nova was the first ICF experiment built with the intention of reaching "ignition", the condition where self heating of ...

Nova was the world’s first petawatt (quadrillion-watt) laser, and it held sway until the late 90’s, when it was dismantled to make way for its successor, the 192-beam National Ignition Facility. From 1984 to 1999, LLNL’s 10-beam Nova Laser ruled …

its predecessor, Nova was the world’s most powerful laser. Its 10 beams produced laser pulses that delivered up to 100 trillion watts of infrared laser power for a billionth of a second. For that brief instant, its power was 25 times greater than the total produced by all U.S. power plants. Unlike Shiva, Nova included crystal plates to ...

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Thanks to Aeon’s lightweight laser head design and high speed digital stepper motors, the Nova can achieve 1.8G of acceleration resulting in scan speeds of up to 1200 mm/sec and cutting speeds of up to 300 mm/sec. Installing a large format laser in a …

Nova is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's 10-beam Nd:glass laser, which is used for inertial confinement fusion research. It operates in the high power, high energy regime, where several interesting nonlinear optical phenomena can occur.

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…and most powerful laser, the Nova laser. (The Nova is a 10-beam neodymium-glass laser operated at an energy level of 40,000 joules in a one-nanosecond pulse.) Although the value of this product is comparable to that representing breakeven for magnetic fusion, laser fusion requires a larger value to overcome the…