National ignition facility alignment and wavefront control

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5341, Issue , 2004, Pages 168-179

  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   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

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVEFRONTS;

ENERGY DENSITY; WAVEFRONT CONTROL; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 3142682235     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.538469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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