Inertial confinement fusion experiments with OMEGA-A 30-kJ, 60-beam UV laser

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 44, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 35-42

  Boehly, T R ^a   McCrory, R L ^a   Verdon, C P ^a   Seka, W ^a   Loucks, S J ^a   Babushkin, A ^a   Bahr, R E ^a   Boni, R ^a   Bradley, D K ^a   Craxton, R S ^a   Delettrez, J A ^a   Donaldson, W R ^a   Epstein, R ^a   Harding, D ^a   Jaanimagi, P A ^a   Jacobs, S D ^a   Kearney, K ^a   Keck, R L ^a   Kelly, J H ^a   Kessler, T J ^a   Kremens, R L ^a   Knauer, J P ^a   Lonobile, D J ^a   Lund, L D ^a   Marshall, F J ^a   McKenty, P W ^a   Meyerhofer, D D ^a   Morse, S F B ^a   Okishev, A ^a   Papernov, S ^a   Pien, G ^a   Safford, T ^a   Schnittman, J D ^a   Short, R ^a   Shoup III, M J ^a   Skeldon, M ^a   Skupsky, S ^a   Schmid, A W ^a   Smalyuk, V A ^a   Smith, D J ^a   Soures, J M ^a   Wittman, M ^a   Yaakobi, B ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed phase plates (DPPs); Distributed polarization rotators (DPRs); Inertial confinement fusion (ICF); Laser pulse shaping; OMEGA Nd:glass laser; Two dimensional smoothing by spectral dispersion (2 D SSD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442306581     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(98)00276-2     Document Type: Article

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