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 [[Image:Novette laser.jpg|thumb|right|250px|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.]]
'''Novette''' was a two beam [[Chemistry:Neodymium|neodymium]] [[Chemistry:Glass|glass]] ([[Chemistry:Phosphate glass|phosphate glass]]) testbed [[Physics:Laser|laser]] built at [[Organization:Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory|Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] in about 15 months throughout 1981 and 1982 and was completed in January 1983. Novette was made using recycled parts from the dismantled [[Engineering:Shiva laser|Shiva]] and [[Engineering:Argus laser|Argus]] lasers and borrowed parts from the future Nova laser. Its main intended purpose was to validate the proposed design and expected performance of the then planned Nova laser. In addition to being used for the further study of enhanced laser to target plasma energy coupling utilizing [[Physics:Optical frequency multiplier|frequency tripled]] light and examining its benefits with respect to [[Physics:Inertial confinement fusion|inertial confinement fusion]], Novette was also used in the world's first laboratory demonstration of an [[Physics:X-ray laser|x-ray laser]] in 1984.

==See also==
* [[Physics:List of laser articles|List of laser articles]]
* [[Physics:List of laser types|List of laser types]]

==External links==
* http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/16710-UOC0xx/native/16710.pdf
* http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985EnTR........15.
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