The Laser Lab: What I did this Summer

This summer, I worked under the tutelage of Wade Bittle and Dr Steven Craxton at the university of Rochester. I worked on a project called Dewpoint calculation using flow transducers. The preliminary time at the internship was spent gaining a basic knowledge of integration, and learning about the omega lasers functions and work schedule. Although we never got to see a shot (a single blast would vaporize our corneas) we had a good understanding of the process going on. When fusion occurs, there is still leftover deuterium(a hydrogen isotope) My project took this deuterium and combined it with oxygen in order to reduce the radioactive emission on the town of Brighton. Also, with the code I wrote, we can take in data of the condensate flowing into it, analyze the contents of it, and calculate the mass of the condensate removed in kilograms. Since the container is limited in capacity, this code allows the LLE to figure out when it is time to use the next molecular sieve.