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The Department of Energy has proposed building a National Ignition Facility (NIF) that will be used to conduct laser driven Inertial Confinement Fusion experiments with the goal of achieving ignition and propagation of a thermonuclear fusion burn. The NIF driver will be a Nd-glass laser consisting of 192 individual "beamlets" built into compact arrays containing as many as 48 of these beamlets. The Beamlet laser, which is discussed in this paper, is a full scale, single-aperture scientific prototype of the NIF design. The goal of the Beamlet is to demonstrate the laser science and technology of the proposed NIF. Construction of Beamlet began in January 1993 and its first phase was completed by September 1994. In this paper we briefly review the design and performance results of the laser and an overview of the 3ω frequency conversion results.
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