DocumentCode
3335661
Title
The National Ignition Campaign (NIC): Results and future plans
Author
MacGowan, Brian J.
Author_Institution
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Livermore, CA, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
20-24 June 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Plasma Science, 2010 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Norfolk, VA
ISSN
0730-9244
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5474-7
Electronic_ISBN
0730-9244
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PLASMA.2010.5534400
Filename
5534400
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