National Ignition Facility front-end laser system

Scott C. Burkhart; Raymond J. Beach; John K. Crane; James M. Davin; Michael D. Perry; Russell B. Wilcox

doi:10.1117/12.228290

8 December 1995 National Ignition Facility front-end laser system

Scott C. Burkhart, Raymond J. Beach, John K. Crane, James M. Davin, Michael D. Perry, Russell B. Wilcox

Proceedings Volume 2633, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF); (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.228290
Event: Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), 1995, Monterey, CA, United States

Abstract

The proposed National Ignition Facility is a 192 beam Nd:glass laser system capable of driving targets to fusion ignition by the year 2005. A key factor in the flexibility and performance of the laser is a front-end system which provides a precisely formatted beam to each beamline. Each of the injected beams has individually controlled energy, temporal pulseshape, and spatial shape to accommodate beamline-to-beamline variations in gain and saturation. This flexibility also gives target designers the options for precisely controlling the drive to different areas of the target. The design of the front-end laser is described, and initial results are discussed.

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Scott C. Burkhart, Raymond J. Beach, John K. Crane, James M. Davin, Michael D. Perry, and Russell B. Wilcox "National Ignition Facility front-end laser system", Proc. SPIE 2633, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), (8 December 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.228290

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