The National Ignition Facility: The World's Largest Laser System for High Energy Density and Inertial Confinement Fusion Science

Edward I. Moses

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
paper JTuE3

The National Ignition Facility: The World's Largest Laser System for High Energy Density and Inertial Confinement Fusion Science

Edward I. Moses

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2004

San Francisco, California United States
16–21 May 2004
ISBN: 1-55752-770-9

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Lasers for High-Field Science and Fusion I (JTuE)

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Abstract

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a stadium-sized facility containing a 192-beam, 1.8-Megajoule, 500-Terawatt, ultraviolet laser system and a 10-meter diameter target chamber with room for nearly 100 experimental diagnostics.

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