Editing Laboratory for Laser Energetics (section)

==History==
The LLE was founded on the [[University of Rochester]]'s campus in 1970, by Dr. Moshe Lubin.<ref name  = "Timeline">"Leading Lights" Features, Rochester Magazine, 2010, http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V73N1/0401_feature2.html, By Scott Hauser</ref><ref name="Timeline LLE">{{Cite web |title=LLE Timeline Plaques |url=https://www.lle.rochester.edu/timeline-old/ |access-date=2024-02-15 |website=Laboratory for Laser Energetics |language=en-US}}</ref> Working with outside companies such as [[Kodak]] the team built Delta, a four beam laser system in 1972. Construction started on the current LLE site in 1976.<ref name = "Timeline"/> The facility opened a six beam laser system in 1978 and followed with a 24 beam system two years later. In 2018, [[Donna Strickland]]<ref>"Dr. Donna Strickland: Packing a laser punch" The University of Waterloo, Personal Profiles, accessed 1-11-2014, {{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/science/magnet-talent-more-stories/dr-donna-strickland |title=Dr. Donna Strickland &#124; Science |access-date=2014-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111204111/https://uwaterloo.ca/science/magnet-talent-more-stories/dr-donna-strickland |archive-date=2014-01-11 }}</ref> and [[Gérard Mourou]] shared a Nobel prize for work they had undertaken in 1985 while at LLE.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/rochesters-breakthrough-in-laser-science-earns-nobel-prize-340302/|title=Rochester breakthrough in laser science earns Nobel Prize|date=October 2, 2018|website=University of Rochester|access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref> They invented a method to amplify laser pulses by [[Chirped pulse amplification|"chirping"]] for which they would share the 2018 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. This method disperses a short, broadband pulse of laser light into a temporally longer spectrum of wavelengths. The system amplifies the laser at each wavelength and then reconstitutes the beam into one color. Chirp pulsed amplification became instrumental in building the [[National Ignition Facility]] and the OMEGA EP system. In 1995, the OMEGA Laser system was increased to 60 beams, and in 2008 the OMEGA Extended Performance (OMEGA EP) system was opened.

''[[The Guardian]]'' and [[Scientific American]] provided simplified summaries of the work of Strickland and Mourou: it "paved the way for the shortest, most intense laser beams ever created". "The ultrabrief, ultrasharp beams can be used to make extremely precise cuts so their technique is now used in laser machining and enables doctors to perform millions of corrective" [[laser eye surgery|laser eye surgeries]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Physics Nobel prize won by Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/02/arthur-ashkin-gerard-mourou-and-donna-strickland-win-nobel-physics-prize |access-date=2 October 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=2 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Optical Tweezers" and Tools Used for Laser Eye Surgery Snag Physics Nobel |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/optical-tweezers-and-tools-used-for-laser-eye-surgery-snag-physics-nobel1/ |access-date=2 October 2018 |publisher=Scientific American |date=2 October 2018}}</ref>