NSF OPAL Flagship Experiment Selection Report

- NSF OPAL System
  The proposed NSF OPAL system parameters and capabilities significantly extend the current state of the art in ultrahigh peak power, ultrafast lasers and will serve national and international research communities for decades to come.
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- Frontier Science
  NSF OPAL will allow the creation and study of extreme physical conditions, such as ultrahigh electromagnetic fields, temperatures, and pressures that represent the frontier of science in studying matter in the Universe.
  
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- People
  Led by principal investigators from the nation’s leading universities, the NSF OPAL team is working to design and prototype the key technologies necessary for a state-of-the-art laser facility.
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- News and Events
  NSF OPAL news and event updates.
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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, world-leading, high-power laser user facility at the University of Rochester.