Title :
The National Ignition Campaign (NIC): Results and future plans
Author :
MacGowan, Brian J.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Livermore, CA, USA
Abstract :
The 192-beam National Ignition Facility (NIF), a football-stadium sized laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, CA, is now fully operational. With planned peak energy of 1.8 MJ in the ultraviolet, NIF will be approximately fifty times more energetic than any previous inertial confinement fusion (ICF) laser system. NIF has conducted 192-beam ICF implosion experiments with energies as high as 1.2 MJ, and has also demonstrated the unprecedented energy and pulse shaping control required for ignition experiments.
Keywords :
explosions; plasma inertial confinement; ICF implosion experiment; National Ignition Facility; energy 1.8 MJ; energy shaping control; football-stadium sized laser; inertial confinement fusion; pulse shaping control; Absorption; Atomic beams; Ignition; Inertial confinement; Laboratories; Laser fusion; Optical control; Pulse shaping methods; Shape control; Temperature control;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science, 2010 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Norfolk, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5474-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0730-9244
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2010.5534400
