The use of beam propagation modeling of beamlet and nova to ensure a "safe" national ignition facility laser system design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3047, Issue , 1997, Pages 84-95

  Henesian, M ^a   Renard, P ^a   Auerbach, J ^a   Caird, J ^a   Ehrlich, B ^a   Haney, S ^a   Hunt, J ^a   Lawson, J ^a   Manes, K ^a   Milam, D ^a   Sacks, R ^a   Seppala, L ^a   Smith, I ^a   Speck, R ^a   Thompson, C ^a   Van Wonterghem, B ^a   Wegner, P ^a   Weiland, T ^a   Widmayer, C ^a   Williams, W ^a   Trenholme, J B ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam filamentation; Beamlet; NIF; Nova; Optical damage; Schlieren; Self focusing

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); IGNITION; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; STAGES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BEAM FILAMENTATION; BEAMLETS; NOVA; OPTICAL DAMAGES; SCHLIEREN; SELF-FOCUSING;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 1642385252     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.294244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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