{"id":155461,"date":"2023-01-14T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/llnl-constructing-high-power-laser-for-new-experimental-facility-at-slac"},"modified":"2023-01-14T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:22:19","slug":"llnl-constructing-high-power-laser-for-new-experimental-facility-at-slac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/llnl-constructing-high-power-laser-for-new-experimental-facility-at-slac","title":{"rendered":"LLNL constructing high-power laser for new experimental facility at SLAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/llnl-constructing-high-power-laser-for-new-experimental-facility-at-slac.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/a>\u2019s decades of leadership in developing high-energy lasers is being tapped to provide a key component of a major upgrade to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/lcls.slac.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linac Coherent Light Source<\/a> (LCLS).<\/p>\n<p>Over the next several years, LLNL\u2019s Advanced Photon Technologies (APT) program will design and construct one of the world\u2019s most powerful petawatt (quadrillion-watt) laser systems for installation in an upgraded <a href=\"https:\/\/lcls.slac.stanford.edu\/instruments\/mec\" target=\"_blank\">Matter in Extreme Conditions<\/a> (MEC) experimental facility at LCLS, funded by the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Science-Fusion Energy Sciences program.<\/p>\n<p>The new laser will pair with the LCLS X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) to advance the understanding of high-energy density (HED) physics, plasma physics, fusion energy, laser-plasma interactions, astrophysics, planetary science and other physical phenomena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u2019s decades of leadership in developing high-energy lasers is being tapped to provide a key component of a major upgrade to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\u2019s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Over the next several years, LLNL\u2019s Advanced Photon Technologies (APT) program will design and construct one of the world\u2019s most powerful petawatt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}