Recent performance results of the beamlet prototype for the National Ignition Facility

Author

Wegner, P.J. ; Auerbach, J.M. ; Barker, C.E. ; Brading, K.R. ; Britten, J.A. ; Burkhart, S.C. ; Caird, J.A. ; Dixit, S.N. ; Feru, P. ; Henesian, M.A. ; Hibbard, R.L. ; Kozlowski, M.R. ; Milam, D. ; Murray, J.E. ; Norton, M.A. ; Rothenberg, Joshua E. ; Wei

Author_Institution

Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

342

Abstract

Summary form only given. The National Ignition Facility (NIF), currently under construction by the Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is a megajoule class Nd:glass laser and target irradiation complex for investigating the physics associated with stockpile stewardship and inertial confinement fusion (ICF).

Keywords

fusion reactor ignition; neodymium; nuclear materials safeguards; optical glass; plasma production by laser; solid lasers; Department of Energy; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; National Ignition Facility; beamlet prototype; inertial confinement fusion; megajoule class Nd:glass laser; nuclear stockpile stewardship; physics; target irradiation complex; Apertures; Frequency conversion; Ignition; Laser beams; Laser theory; Optical design; Optical filters; Prototypes; Structural beams; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676268

Filename

676268