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Novette laser

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.

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Fusion power v • d • e
Atomic nucleus \| Nuclear fusion \| Nuclear power \| Nuclear reactor \| Timeline of nuclear fusion \| Plasma physics \| Magnetohydrodynamics \| Neutron flux \| Fusion energy gain factor \| Lawson criterion
Methods of fusing nuclei
Magnetic confinement: – Tokamak – Spheromak – Stellarator – Reversed field pinch – Field-Reversed Configuration – Levitated Dipole Inertial confinement: – Laser driven – Z-pinch – Bubble fusion (acoustic confinement) – Fusor (electrostatic confinement) Other forms of fusion: – Muon-catalyzed fusion – Pyroelectric fusion – Migma – Polywell – Dense plasma focus
List of fusion experiments
Magnetic confinement devices ITER (International) \| JET (European) \| JT-60 (Japan) \| Large Helical Device (Japan) \| KSTAR (Korea) \| EAST (China) \| T-15 (Russia) \| DIII-D (USA) \| Tore Supra (France) \| TFTR (USA) \| NSTX (USA) \| NCSX (USA) \| UCLA ET (USA) \| Alcator C-Mod (USA) \| LDX (USA) \| H-1NF (Australia) \| MAST (UK) \| START (UK) \| ASDEX Upgrade (Germany) \| Wendelstein 7-X (Germany) \| TCV (Switzerland) \| DEMO (Commercial) Inertial confinement devices Laser driven: — NIF (USA) \| OMEGA laser (USA) \| Nova laser (USA) \| Novette laser (USA) \| Nike laser (USA) \| Shiva laser (USA) \| Argus laser (USA) \| Cyclops laser (USA) \| Janus laser (USA) \| Long path laser (USA) \| 4 pi laser (USA) \| LMJ (France) \| Luli2000 (France) \| GEKKO XII (Japan) \| ISKRA lasers (Russia) \| Vulcan laser (UK) \| Asterix IV laser (Czech Republic) \| HiPER laser (European) Non-laser driven: — Z machine (USA) \| PACER (USA) See also: International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility