First results from cryogenic target implosions on OMEGA

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2195-2201

  Stoeckl, C ^a,b,c,d   Chiritescu, C ^a,b,c,d   Delettrez, J A ^a,b,c,d   Epstein, R ^a,b,c,d   Glebov, V Yu ^a,b,c,d   Harding, D R ^a,b,c,d   Keck, R L ^a,b,c,d   Loucks, S J ^a,b,c,d   Lund, L D ^a,b,c,d   McCrory, R L ^a,b,c,d   McKenty, P W ^a,b,c,d   Marshall, F J ^a,b,c,d   Meyerhofer, D D ^a,b,c,d   Morse, S F B ^a,b,c,d   Regan, S P ^a,b,c,d   Radha, P B ^a,b,c,d   Roberts, S ^a,b,c,d   Sangster, T C ^a,b,c,d   Seka, W ^a,b,c,d   Skupsky, S ^a,b,c,d   Smalyuk, V A ^a,b,c,d   Sorce, C ^a,b,c,d   Soures, J M ^a,b,c,d   Town, R P J ^a,b,c,d   Frenje, J A ^a,b,c,d   Li, C K ^a,b,c,d   Petrasso, R D ^a,b,c,d   Seguin F H ^a,b,c,d   Fletcher, K ^a,b,c,d   Paladino, S ^a,b,c,d   Freeman, C ^a,b,c,d   Izumi, N ^a,b,c,d   Lerche, R ^a,b,c,d   Phillips, T W ^a,b,c,d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC TARGETS; DIRECT DRIVE; DIRECT-DRIVE IGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; ICE LAYERS; LASER LIGHTS; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY; NEUTRON YIELDS; NONUNIFORMITY; OMEGA LASER SYSTEMS; POLYMER SHELL; SECONDARY NEUTRONS; SHADOWGRAPHY; SQUARE PULSE; TIME-RESOLVED; X-RAY IMAGE;

CRYOGENICS;

EXPLOSIONS;

EID: 0001130602     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1458586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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