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The system employs a high-energy (up to 1.2\u00a0J), pulsed Nd:YAG laser, operating typically at 10\u00a0Hz and up to 50\u00a0Hz, coupled to a fast piezoelectric steering mirror assembly, allowing multiple, precisely timed impurity injections within a single plasma discharge, with accurate control of the injection location. Independent control of laser energy, beam size, and focal position enables selection of the target energy density and ablated particle number, facilitating controlled injection of trace to non-trace low- and high-Z materials, such as calcium and tungsten, with typical injected particle numbers spanning \u223c1017\u22121019 (low-Z) and \u223c1014\u22121016 (high-Z). The system supports injection of a wide range of materials (over 30 elements is available), enabling both non-perturbative trace impurity injections that nevertheless remain detectable in the plasma and perturbative impurity injections suitable for validation studies of impurity radiation effects on plasma performance. The injected impurities are monitored using DIII-D\u2019s comprehensive suite of spectroscopic diagnostics to characterize impurity evolution and radial transport. 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