Alignment and wavefront control systems of the National Ignition Facility

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2873-2884

  Zacharias, R A ^a   Beer, N R ^a   Bliss, E S ^b   Burkhart, S C ^a   Cohen, S J ^a   Sutton, S B ^a   Van Atta, R L ^a   Winters, S E ^a   Salmon, J T ^a   Latta, M R ^a   Stolz, C J ^a   Pigg, D C ^a   Arnold, T J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Johnson Controls   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Alignment systems; High power lasers; Laser alignment; Wavefront control; Wavefront correction

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALIGNMENT; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVEFRONTS;

ALIGNEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS; LASER ALIGNMENT; NEODYMIUM GLASS LASER; WAVEFRONT CONTROL SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944430115     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1815331     Document Type: Article

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