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ELI and LLNL strengthen collaboration

Jul. 11, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

ELI Names Leonida Gizzi as New Director of Science

Jul. 04, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

DESY scientist wins the junior scientist contest “Talents for Fusion”

Jun. 20, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

LLNL, Amazon partner on groundbreaking AI integration at the National Ignition Facility

Jun. 11, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Federal Ministry of Research grants millions for “fusion talent” — Dr. Jonas Ohland will lead GSI/FAIR young investigators group

Jun. 05, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

The US has a new most powerful laser

May. 28, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

UK’s laser facility achieves first light with £17 million project

May. 20, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

What will it take to bring fusion energy to the US power grid?

May. 14, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

New Expert Group ‘Network on extreme intensity laser systems’ (NEILS)

May. 08, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

100 shots per second

Apr. 23, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Expert Group on ICF/IFE publishes report “Europe’s IFE Strategic Direction”

Apr. 16, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

33rd annual International Laser Physics Conference

Apr. 10, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Laboratory Traning Platform: High Power Laser Diagnostics and Data Analysis

Apr. 10, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

2025 LaserNetUS Meeting

Apr. 03, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

EuPRAXIA selects ELI for second Laser-Driven Accelerator Site

Apr. 03, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Medical Applications of High-Power Lasers - Dr. LASER official launch

Apr. 03, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

HB11 Energy partners with University of Adelaide on Australian-first $8.2M national laser facility, out of Adelaide

Apr. 03, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

New project: Time and Space Resolved Ultra-strong Magnetic-field Probing from Relativistic Laser-plasma Interaction in Ultrathin Targets at ELI-Beamlines

Mar. 28, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Joint project VANLIFE funded by BMBF

Mar. 19, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Dr. Jochen Stollenwerk takes over as acting director of the Fraunhofer ILT

Mar. 19, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

ELI User Meeting 2025

Mar. 12, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

5th International Workshop on Proton-Boron Fusion

Mar. 10, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

2nd Intensive School in Laser, Plasma & Fusion

Mar. 10, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Radiation from Relativistic Electrons in Periodic Structures

Mar. 07, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Joint Target Fabrication Workshop 9 and TARG 6

Feb. 27, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

More efficient and brilliant diode lasers thanks to fiber Bragg gratings

Feb. 27, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop 2025

Feb. 20, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

SLAC to develop fusion energy target technology as part of DOE Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaboratives

Feb. 20, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

Ultrafast Optics XIV

Feb. 13, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

ELI Summer School 2025

Jan. 24, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

LLNL creates world’s brightest X-ray source with NIF and novel metal foams

Jan. 24, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

World Record, ELI-NP delivers 274 shots in one day at 10 PW output of its High Power Laser System

Jan. 15, 2025Vol. , Issue (2025)

LLNL Selected to Lead Next-Gen Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Research

Dec. 25, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Milestone 10-GeV Experiment Shines Light on Laser-Plasma Interactions

Dec. 20, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Gets Major Energy Boost

Dec. 20, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

6th European Conference on Plasma Diagnostics

Dec. 04, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

LLE and Sydor Technologies Awarded $1.15M DOE Phase II SBIR Grant for Fusion Research

Nov. 21, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

33rd annual International Laser Physics Conference

Nov. 21, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

LPA Special Workshop on Intelligent Systems

Nov. 14, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

20th International Workshop on Radiative Properties of Hot Dense Matter

Nov. 14, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

51st EPS Conference on Plasma Physics

Nov. 07, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

13th International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications

Nov. 07, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

LLNL-led team receives ARPA-E funding for technology to enable fusion power plants

Oct. 22, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Launch of Lasers4EU: A central platform for accessing European laser research infrastructures

Oct. 22, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

LLE Research Team Wins 2024 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

Sep. 25, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Lan Gao wins a DOE $2.75 million early career award to develop innovative diagnostic tools for future fusion energy devices

Sep. 25, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Advancing LaserNetUS Science with Enhanced Diagnostics

Sep. 13, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

LLRF Topical Workshop - Timing, Synchronization, Measurements and Calibration

Sep. 11, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Fusion Research Enters New Era

Aug. 20, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

IS A GAMMA-RAY LASER POSSIBLE?

Jul. 26, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Installation of the first two front ends for the SLS2.0 completed

Jul. 26, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

The 21st International Congress on Plasma Physics

Jul. 16, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

New Density-Functional Theory Code MELIORA Released by LLE’s High-Energy-Density-Physics Theory Group

Jul. 11, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Workshop on Micro and Nano-Structured Materials for Experiments with High-Power Lasers

Jul. 10, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Together against lung cancer

Jul. 10, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Intensive School "Laser, Plasma & Fusion"

Jul. 02, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

4th International Workshop on Proton-Boron Fusion

Jul. 02, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

An innovative software infrastructure for laser-driven ion acceleration

Jun. 26, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

15th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation

Jun. 18, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Network on Extreme Intensity Laser Systems (NEILS) Meeting 2024

Jun. 06, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

The Extreme Light Infrastructure User Meeting 2024

May. 28, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

CLF Target Fabrication Group and spin out company Scitech Precision Limited Provide Fully Automated Assembly of Micro-Targets for Laser Experiments

May. 23, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Exploring the ultrasmall and ultrafast through advances in attosecond science

May. 15, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Harnessing Machine Learning for Breakthroughs with High-Power Lasers

Apr. 28, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

HB11 collaborates on ‘Equations of State’ experiments at PALS, Czech Republic

Apr. 24, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

New foundation for laser fusion research

Apr. 18, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Ignition Takes Center Stage at NIF and JLF User Groups Meeting

Apr. 11, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Nathalie Picqué accepts dual appointment in Berlin

Apr. 11, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Romania center explores world's most powerful laser

Apr. 02, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

19th Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop

Mar. 28, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Structural transition project strives to bring laser fusion closer to application

Mar. 19, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

4TH ELI USER CALL SET TO LAUNCH 25 MARCH

Mar. 06, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Plasma oscillations propel breakthroughs in fusion energy

Mar. 06, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Michelle Marshall to Lead High-Energy-Density Physics Experiments Group

Mar. 06, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Laserlab-Europe Talk in March & April

Feb. 26, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

SLAC scientists explain: What is inertial fusion energy?

Feb. 26, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Basic Research Needs Workshop on Laser Technology in 2023

Feb. 22, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Prof Peter Norreys Wins Edward Teller Award

Feb. 19, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Enhanced Yield Capability Proposal Aims to Boost NIF Yield

Jan. 31, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

EuPRAXIA-DN School on Plasma Accelerators

Jan. 25, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

PhD Academy "Energy & Society"

Jan. 19, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Gemini uses plasma 'optical fibres' to improve laser-driven acceleration

Jan. 15, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

ECLIM 2024 - 37th European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter

Jan. 03, 2024Vol. , Issue (2024)

Europe’s plans for laser fusion energy beyond the NIF results

Dec. 28, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Faculty Position in the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University

Dec. 27, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

New Emmy Noether Group for DESY Plasma Accelerator Physicist Rob Shalloo

Dec. 22, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Berkeley Lab Leads SciDAC Project

Dec. 22, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

SwissFEL: a next generation tool for Attosecond Science

Dec. 14, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

$10 Million in Funding Secured for New Inertial Fusion Energy Consortium

Dec. 11, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

LLNL-Led Team Receives DOE Award to Establish Inertial Fusion Energy Hub

Dec. 11, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Europe lays plans to solve the global energy crisis with laser fusion

Dec. 07, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

ICUIL 2024 Conference, Cozumel Island, Mexico

Dec. 04, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

52nd Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference (AAC2024)

Nov. 27, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

50th Conference of Plasma Physics

Nov. 27, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

LLNL’s National Ignition Facility delivers record laser energy

Nov. 21, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

ELI USER MEETING COMING SOON

Nov. 06, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

New Record for CLF’s DiPOLE Technology

Nov. 06, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

LLNL-led Project to Advance Muon-Based Imaging in DARPA-Funded Initiative

Oct. 30, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

2022 High Power Laser Science and Engineering Editor-in-Chief Choice Award

Oct. 26, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Awards announcement for 10th Anniversary of High Power Laser Science and Engineering

Oct. 26, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

HPLSE at the 5th Conference on Extremely High Intensity Laser Physics

Sep. 27, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Sydor Technologies Receives Grant for Developing Plasma-Electrode Pockels Cells for Inertial Fusion Facilities

Sep. 21, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Exciting research topics for students in one of the most creative laser research groups world-wide

Sep. 08, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

U.S. Department of Energy Awards $28.5 Million to LaserNetUS

Aug. 28, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023-)

Laserlab-Europe AISBL elects John Collier as new Executive Director

Aug. 14, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

The CNR joined Laserlab-Europe AISBL with the ILIL infrastructure of the National Institute of Optics (INO)

Aug. 14, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

HB11 Energy receives grant from US Department of Energy to develop clean, safe and unlimited fusion energy

Aug. 08, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

New STFC Executive Director of National Laboratories

Aug. 07, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

David Turnbull Selected for 2023 Edouard Fabre Prize

Aug. 02, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

AWAKE introduces a stronger wave to accelerate particles

Jul. 31, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Save the Date! AKL'24 from April 17 to 19, 2024

Jul. 25, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

HORUS pushes attosecond physics

Jul. 25, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Discovery Science laser experiment at NIF

Jul. 18, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

D100X exceeds all expectations on first experiment

Jun. 25, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

HiLASE Centre’s laser technologies are heading into Space

Jun. 21, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Advancing Flow Visualization at Ultrahigh Pressure

Jun. 21, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

UKPiño - A Grand Endeavor

Jun. 19, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Princeton Stellarators, Inc., a PPPL spinoff company, receives funding through DOE’s Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program

Jun. 19, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Jun. 05, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

PLASMA 2023 International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas

Jun. 05, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

5th Conference on Extremely High Intensity Laser Physics (ExHILP 2023)

Jun. 05, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

20th International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics

Jun. 05, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Advanced laser processing and manufacturing technologies with HiLASE Centre optics

Jun. 01, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Snapshots of photoinjection

May. 29, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Call for access to Artemis now open

May. 26, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Lab researchers assist for new Compact X-ray FEL

May. 23, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Opening Ceremony for the CLF’s New Engineering & Technology Centre

May. 23, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

The HiLASE Centre is heading into new application areas

May. 23, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Elections to the Board of the BP&IF section

May. 16, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

CLF Talking Science! The Magic of Laser Levitation

May. 16, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

New director appointed to lead the Cockcroft Institute

May. 16, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Four positions at CNR National Institute of Optics

Apr. 26, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

5th European Conference on Plasma Diagnostics

Apr. 03, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Calls for access to the High Power Lasers

Mar. 28, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Mar. 28, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Martin Smrz at the Ultrafast Optics XIII conference

Mar. 27, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

The 13th edition of the Ultrafast Optics conference

Mar. 27, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Patent for LLE Technology Awarded

Mar. 07, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

LIDT Challenge 2023

Mar. 02, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

New Call for Proposals – Open Access to the HiLASE Centre Facilities

Mar. 02, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Contributions to the 49th European Conference on Plasma Physics

Feb. 28, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

ELI Summer School 2023

Feb. 23, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Power plasma with gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes

Feb. 23, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

2nd ELI Call for Users

Feb. 15, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

The 18th International Conference on X-Ray Laser

Feb. 15, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Meet Zhi Liao, NIF’s Workforce Manager

Feb. 09, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

PPPL engineer wins sought-after seat on the IEEE Fusion Technology Standing Committee

Jan. 11, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Flash Center Releases New Version of FLASH Code

Jan. 11, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

2023 EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize

Jan. 04, 2023Vol. , Issue (2023)

Major boost to European plasma accelerator facility

Dec. 20, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition

Dec. 14, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

A Fusion Energy Breakthrough? Major Announcement Expected from US Scientists

Dec. 12, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Calls for access to OCTOPUS and ULTRA

Nov. 29, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

High-Laser-Energy Shot Puts NIF Back on Track Toward Ignition

Nov. 23, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Faculty Position in the Institute of Laser Engineering of Osaka University

Nov. 14, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Conference on High Intensity Laser and attosecond science in Israel

Nov. 09, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Joint ELI User Meeting 2022

Nov. 03, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

‘Twisted’ Laser Light Experiments Offer New Insights into Plasma Physics

Oct. 28, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Future of High-Intensity Laser Science and Applications Highlights LaserNetUS Meeting

Oct. 20, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

NIF Hosts Workshop for International ICF Laser Operators

Sep. 29, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Hamamatsu and Fraunhofer ILT set up lab for material processing

Sep. 16, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Upgraded laser facility paves the way for next-generation particle accelerators

Sep. 15, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

LLNL’s New Diffraction Gratings Will Enable the World’s Most Powerful Laser

Sep. 09, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Two PPPL physicists named to high-level DOE positions

Sep. 01, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

ELI Beamlines leads Europe-US group to study ‘antimatter creation’ with lasers and University of Strathclyde devises ‘simple’ way of sculpting matter into complex shapes by laser

Aug. 25, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Researchers design compact high-power laser using plasma optics

Aug. 24, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Researchers find new ways to steer fusion with lasers and magnetic fields

Aug. 15, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Exclusive: Laser-fusion facility heads back to the drawing board

Aug. 03, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

XFEL Physical Sciences Hub – Jointly funded PhD Call 2022

Jul. 28, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

LLNL helping create a cryo target capability for French laser facility

Jul. 26, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

￡59.7m Announced for Vulcan 20-20 in UKRI’s Infrastructure Fund

Jul. 14, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

U.S. and Czech scientists collaborate to explore gamma-ray production with high-power lasers

Jul. 07, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Christopher Deeney Appointed New Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

Jun. 07, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

New Target Facility Will Help Unlock Plutonium’s Secrets

Jun. 07, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Highest degree of purity achieved for polarized X-rays

May. 30, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

the 36th European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter

May. 12, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

International Conference on X-Ray Laser 2022 (Both online and offline)

May. 12, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

New ￡60 million investment for particle physics research in the UK

Apr. 16, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

A new world record on the BIVOJ laser system achieved on the green

Mar. 22, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

LLNL constructing high-power laser for new facility at SLAC

Mar. 22, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)

Professor Dr. Paolo Giubellino starts second term as Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR

Mar. 22, 2022Vol. , Issue (2022)