Improvements in power, precision, and shot rate from the Nova target irradiation facility

D. R. SPECK; C. BIBEAU; R. B. EHRLICH; M. A. HENESIAN; G. L. HERMES; D. T. KYRAZIS; C. W. LAUMANN; J. K. LAWSON; J. RAY SMITH; P. J. WEGNER; T. L. WEILAND

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1989),
paper WD1

Improvements in power, precision, and shot rate from the Nova target irradiation facility

D. R. SPECK, C. BIBEAU, R. B. EHRLICH, M. A. HENESIAN, G. L. HERMES, D. T. KYRAZIS, C. W. LAUMANN, J. K. LAWSON, J. RAY SMITH, P. J. WEGNER, and T. L. WEILAND

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1989

Baltimore, Maryland United States
24–28 April 1989
ISBN: 1-55752-086-0

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D. R. SPECK, C. BIBEAU, R. B. EHRLICH, M. A. HENESIAN, G. L. HERMES, D. T. KYRAZIS, C. W. LAUMANN, J. K. LAWSON, J. R. SMITH, P. J. WEGNER, and T. L. WEILAND, "Improvements in power, precision, and shot rate from the Nova target irradiation facility," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, R. Bartolini, P. Liao, J. Bufton, and W. Krupke, eds., Vol. 11 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1989), paper WD1.

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Nova, the powerful and sophisticated Nd: glass laser fusion irradiation facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,¹ has been actively doing experiments for more than 4 years. Nova's output is unsurpassed In flexibility providing experiments with a choice of wavelength, pulse duration, pulse shape, pulse format, and focused intensity. Power available to targets has exceeded 20 TW in a 1.0-ns pulse at 0.36 μm. Experiments from Nova have significantly advanced inertial confinement fusion (IGF) and laser-matter interaction physics. Accomplishments include the highest neutron yield of 2 × 10¹³ from a direct drive IGF target; thirtyfold radial convergence of an IGF target; density, confinement time, ion temperature products as great as 4 × 10¹⁴ cm⁻³ s keV; and advances is soft x-ray lasers.²

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