National Ignition Facility wavefront requirements and optical architecture

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2854-2865

  Spaeth, M L ^a   Manes, K R ^a   Widmayer, C C ^a   Williams, W H ^a   Whitman, P K ^a   Henesian, M A ^a   Stowers, I F ^a   Honig, J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion lasers; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER FUSION; OPTICAL DESIGN; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOLID STATE LASERS; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAMLINES; LASER ARCHITECTURE; LASER ENERGY; LASER SYTEMS; WAVEFRONT PARAMETERS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 12844276049     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1815332     Document Type: Article

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