April 3, 2025 Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester: Where Education Meets Innovation NSF OPAL is discussed in a video highlighting the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.
January 15, 2025 Franklin Dollar Receives 2025 PECASE Franklin Dollar, NSF OPAL Co-PI, has been honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest recognition from the U.S. Government for early-career researchers.
December 23, 2024 How POWERFUL of a Laser Can We Make? NSF OPAL project Co-PI, Franklin Dollar, recently appeared in an NSF video talking about lasers, high power lasers, and Death Stars.
November 9, 2024 NSF OPAL: Laser System Design and Critical Technologies NSF OPAL Lead Laser Scientist Jake Bromage provides an overview of the laser architecture and cutting-edge technologies that form the foundation of the NSF OPAL system.
October 8, 2024 An Inspiring Visit from Donna Strickland Nobel laureate Donna Strickland and her husband Douglas Dykaar visited with the NSF OPAL (Optical Parametric Amplifier Line) design team at LLE.
August 30, 2024 NSF OPAL Flagship Experiment Selection Report The Flagship Selection Report details the selection of experiments that will guide the NSF OPAL midscale research infrastructure (RI-1) project that will design and prototype critical systems for a new,…
July 26, 2024 Is a gamma-ray laser possible? Led by NSF OPAL Co-PI Antonino Di Piazza, a team of researchers have secured National Science Foundation funding in collaboration with colleagues from ELI Beamlines in the Czech Republic to…
September 25, 2023 NSF Announcement of RI-1 Awards The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Rochester nearly $18 million over three years to design and prototype key technologies for the NSF OPAL facility.
November 23, 2022 MP3 Workshop Report The Multi-Petawatt Physics Prioritization (MP3) Workshop Report captures the outcomes from a community-initiated workshop held April 20-22, 2022 at Sorbonne University in Paris, France.