laser machining for fabrication of hohlaraums and capsules

laser machining tachnology has been used to demonstrate the ability to rapidly perform jobs on all aspects of ICF targets.lasers are able to rapidly perform modifications and repairs to the gold metal parts on huhlraums.make cuts in the delicate polymer parts of hohlraum.and drill holes in the capsules to enable them to be filled with fuel. lasers investigated in this work include 193 nm ArF and 248 nm KrF excimers and 810 nm chirped pluse amplification Ti: sapphire lasers.the excimer lasers showed a definit advantage in drilling and machining of polymeric materials and the ultrashort infrared pluses of the Ti: sapphire laser where far better for the gold structure.