A diode pumped solid state laser driver for inertial fusion energy

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-116

  Orth, C D ^a   Payne, S A ^a   Krupke, W F ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COST OF ELECTRICITY (COE); DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE LASER (DPSSL) DRIVES; INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY (IFE) POWER PLANTS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0029679033     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/36/1/I06     Document Type: Article

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