Developing beam phasing on the Nova laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3047, Issue , 1997, Pages 819-824

  Ehrlich, Robert B ^a   Amendt, Peter A ^a   Dixit, Shamasundar N ^a   Hammel, Bruce A ^a   Kalantar, Daniel H ^a   Pennington, Deanna M ^a   Weiland, Timothy L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam phasing; Implosion symmetry; Kinoform phase plates; Nova; Power balance

Indexed keywords

INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

BEAM PHASING; IMPLOSION SYMMETRY; KINOFORM PHASE PLATES; NOVA; POWER BALANCE;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 1242284786     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.294262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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