Laser Research

Omega Addition Named for Former President

DEDICATION: Sproull at the ceremony for the new addition.

The newest addition to the Laboratory for Laser Energetics has been named in honor of Robert L. Sproull, the seventh president of the University.

An 84,000-square-foot building, the Robert L. Sproull Center for Ultra High Intensity Laser Research will house a newly renovated laser array, Omega EP (Extended Performance), which is expected to extend the laboratory’s peak capacity to more than 1,000 times that of the original facility built in the 1970s. The new array will be fully operational in 2007.

An internationally known physicist, Sproull was instrumental in securing funding for the LLE during his administration, making the laboratory a leading center for laser research.