Recent progress in the development of capsule targets for the National Ignition Facility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5228, Issue , 2003, Pages 692-705

  Cook, Robert ^a   Anthamatten, Mitchell ^a   Armstrong, J Paul ^a   Letts, Stephan A ^a   McEachern, Randall L ^a   McQuillan, Barry W ^b   Takagi, Masaru ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Beryllium; Capsule; Mandrel; NIF; Polyimide; Surface finish

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BERYLLIUM; DRILLING; FINISHING; IGNITION; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPACITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CAPSULE; MANDREL; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY (NIF); NIF; SURFACE FINISH;

POLYIMIDES;

EID: 1842477317     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.537397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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