##  [High-Energy Advanced Thermal Performance](/archives/ldrd-annual-2020/project-hightlights/lasers-optical-science/high-energy-advanced-thermal) 

## Emily Link | 20-ERD-006

### Executive Summary

We are developing scaling laws for thermal effects in gas-cooled, multi-slab, high-average-power laser architectures and benchmarking those scaling laws against experimental results. This project will improve high-average-power laser technology, enabling it for fusion energy science, high-energy-density physics, and other national security applications.