Novette laser
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Novette was a two beam neodymium 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 usi
The Novette target chamber (metal sphere with diagnostic devices sticking out), which was reused from the Shiva project and two newly built laser chains visible in background.
X-ray laser
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An X-ray laser can be created by several methods either in hot, dense plasmas or as a free-electron laser in an accelerator. This article describes the x-ray lasers in plasmas, only.
The vacuum chambers at the PALS laboratory in Prague, where a 1 kJ pulse creates plasma for X-ray generation