Title :
Fabrication of beam sampling gratings for the national ignition facility (NIF)
Author :
Yu, June ; Britten, Jerald A. ; Summers, Leslie ; Dixit, Sham ; Hoaglan, Curly R. ; Aasen, Michael D. ; Hackel, Richard P. ; Prasad, Rahul R.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA
Abstract :
Beam sampling gratings (BSG) have been successfully fabricated to provide a small sample of the NIF 351nm high power laser beams. The sampled fraction will be used to determine the laser beam energy on target and to achieve power balance on all 192 NIF beams.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; laser beams; laser variables measurement; optical fabrication; power measurement; 351 nm; beam sampling gratings fabrication; high power laser beams; laser beam energy determination; national ignition facility; Fabrication; Gratings; Ignition; Laser beams; Optical buffering; Optical diffraction; Power lasers; Resists; Sampling methods; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
