The National Ignition Facility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5341, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-12

  Miller, George H ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High Energy Density Physics; Inertial Confinement Fusion; Laboratory Astrophysics; Solid State Lasers

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DENSITY; LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS; X RAY DETECTORS;

CRYOGENICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER BEAMS; SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

EID: 3142717400     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.538462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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46. For more information on the National Ignition Facility please visit the NIF web site at http://www.llnl.gov/nif