Manyalibo Matthews, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), CA, USA
California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) oversees the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which houses the world's largest and most energetic laser. Repeated use of this laser can damage the optics, which guide and focus the laser within the system.
Manyalibo Matthews, deputy group leader in the Materials Science Division of LLNL, and his team study techniques to repair and maintain the laser's fused silica optics. Read about how they used the COMSOL Multiphysics® software to simulate laser-material interactions. This enabled them to explore infrared (IR) pulsed laser microshaping/micromachining, slow annealing, and laser chemical vapor deposition (L-CVD). The team also optimized an additive process for 3D printing called selective laser melting (SLM).
Suggested Stories
Investigating Intrabody Communication for Leadless Cardiac Pacemakers
MicroPort CRM used numerical simulation to optimize leadless cardiac pacemaker (LCP) designs and how they communicate ...
Seismic Safety Evaluations of Dams with Numerical Simulation
At Pisa University, numerical simulation is being used to study the accuracy of dam safety evaluations during ...
Conjugate Heat Transfer
This is an application brief describing the concept of Conjugate Heat Transfer, which is important in many industrial ...
Metamaterials Make Physics Seem Like Magic
Metamaterials are manufactured, structured materials that they can interact and manipulate wave phenomena such that ...
