Lasers and Optics

High-energy and high-peak-power pulsed laser systems are enabling technologies for particle acceleration, nuclear fusion, additive manufacturing...

LLNL researchers have developed novel and cost-effective series of architectures and techniques relating for passive mitigation of thermal...

The approach is to use foundational materials science, structural design, thermal analysis, optic fabrication, and space systems engineering, and to...

The approach is to use appropriately doped semi-insulating gallium nitride to provide a high damage tolerant photoconductor with high responsivity to...

This LLNL invention allows for the fabrication of complex waveplate features and topologies from fused silica, a highly desirable and durable...

This LLNL invention proposes a new microstructured large mode area fiber design that enhances the confinement of the core mode while strongly...

LLNL researchers developed a novel strategy that involves material transformations such as oxidation, nitridation, or carbonization. In one embodiment...

LLNL researchers have created a suitably compliant adhesive that is based on a thiol monomer mixed with an epoxy monomer in the presence of metal...

LLNL researchers have continued to develop their pioneering DIW 3D-printed glass optics technology that allows for the 3D printing of single- and...

This LLNL invention concerns a method for patterning the index of refraction by fabricating a spatially invariant metasurface, and then apply...

This invention proposes achieving the same effect of a single, high intensity pulse through the use of a closely spaced burst of short duration pulses...

Holography fully encodes a 3D light field by imprinting its interference pattern with a reference laser beam in a nonlinear medium. By crossing two...

This invention proposes the use of a nonlinear spectral broadening subsystem as a post-CPA pulse compression add-on for high energy laser systems. The...

Powder atomic layer deposition process is used to coat nanopowders of host materials (e.g. yttrium aluminum garnet) with optically active neodymium...

This novel invention specifically enables the fabrication of arbitrarily tailored birefringence characteristics in nano-structured meta-surfaces on...

This invention (US Patent No. 11,294,103 ) is an extension of another LLNL invention, US Patent No. 10,612,145 , which utilizes a thin sacrificial...

This invention proposes fabrication of a sandwich of two or more (typically 3) magneto-rheologically finished (MRF’d) birefringent plates with purpose...

This LLNL invention is an optical amplifier, wherein the gain element is in the form of a frustum and a spherically diverging laser beam is introduced...

This invention circumvents the GMAPD deadtime limitation by using an array of GMAPDs in a non-imaging configuration instead of a single element. By...

This invention works by imaging an ultrafast pulse diffracted from a large grating onto a spatial light modulator (SLM) thereby directly transcribing...

This invention exploits the non-linearities of optical Mach-Zehnder (MZ) electrooptic modulators to enhance small signal dynamic range at higher...

This invention draws on the higher damage tolerance of plasma to manipulate high-intensity light. Plasma is a difficult medium to control and sets...

This invention proposes a volumetric transmission grating based on ionization created in a neutral gas by crossing and interfering two short-pulse...

This invention proposes using a pulse laser configured to generate laser pulses and a controller for controlling operation of the pulse laser. The...

Rapid monolith development at scale is achieved through use of a functionally equivalent optic simulant made from a low-cost material to substitute...

Aeroptics are a proposed new class of monolithic optical system in aerogel fabricated by molding around a master mandrel. This approach combines the...

This invention proposes to engineer the current density along the length of a laser diode to overcome the penalty associated with non-uniformity...

This invention proposes to engineer the temperature dependence of the emission wavelength of LEDs and laser diodes. The approach is to use a strain...

This invention proposes a method to overcome the key limitation of electrically pumped lasers based on AlN, AlGaN, or AlInGaN, namely the lack of...

Laser diode lensing effect can be substantially reduced by creating a pattern interface such that the substrate is only attached at the diode mesa...

This invention takes advantage of the high water-solubility of key NIF KDP crystal optics and uses water as an etchant to remove surface defects and...

This invention proposes to use laser induced melting/softening to locally reshape the form of a glass optic. The local glass densification that...

This invention achieves both a wider field of view and faster f-number within a monolithic substrate by incorporating an aspheric convex refractive...

This invention is about a Material Jetting technique used to form a ceramic green body that is subsequently processed into a transparent ceramic optic...

This invention consists of a method of forming nanoscale metal lines to produce a grating-like mask with wide area coverage over the surface of a...

This LLNL invention proposes a novel approach to spectral interferometry, the preferred technique for characterizing nanosecond long records of laser...

LLNL has designed and demonstrated a novel transmission Spectral Beam Combining grating optic assembly with megawatt power handling capabilities. The...

Heat sensitive materials such as piezoelectric and MEMS devices and assemblies, magnetic sensors, nonlinear optical crystals, laser glass or solid...

LLNL researchers have developed a high average power Faraday rotator that is gas-cooled and uniquely designed to dissipate heat uniformly so that it...

This novel detector for characterizing IFE implosions is an alternative to the current RTNADs to measure neutron fluxes > 3x10 11 neutrons/cm 2 at...

This invention discloses a method to minimize transient variations in the wavelength- and/or pointing-behavior of an optic, without requiring a...

This novel method of producing waveplates from isotropic optical materials (e.g. fused silica) consists of forming a void-dash metasurface using the...

This invention concerns a new type of optic: a transient gas or plasma volume grating produced indirectly by small secondary lasers or directly by...

This invention utilizes transmission gratings to combine lasers of the same wavelength into a single collinear output. The transmission grating can be...

LLNL researchers in the NIF Directorate DoD Technologies RF Photonics Group explored phase modulation solutions to this signal processing challenge...

Livermore Lab researchers have developed two new methods for improving the efficiency of laser drilling. The first method is based on multi-pulse...

Livermore Lab's SBC grating optics benefit from the combination of the following key technologies: LLNL proprietary optical coating designs utilizing...

Monolithic Telescopes are a novel implementation of a solid catadioptric design form, instantiated in a monolithic block of fused silica.

The LLNL method for optimizing as built optical designs uses insights from perturbed optical system theory and reformulates perturbation of optical...

LLNL researchers have developed a custom resin formulation which uses a dispersing solvent and only a multifunctional monomer as the binding agent...

LLNL's Slurry Stabilization Method provides a chemical means of stabilizing a polishing compound in suspension at working concentrations without...

LLNL is developing the Space-based Telescopes for Actionable Refinement of Ephemeris (STARE). STARE is a constellation of low cost nano-satellites...

The selected industrial partner and LLNL will enter into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop the next generation of...

The new LLNL technique works by transiently removing and trapping concrete or rock surface material, so that contaminants are confined in a manner...