The Texas petawatt laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5991, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Martinez, Mikael ^a   Gaul, Erhard ^a   Ditmire, Todd ^a   Douglas, Skyler ^a   Gorski, Dan ^a   Henderson, Watson ^a   Blakeney, Joel ^a   Hammond, Doug ^a   Gerity, Michael ^a   Caird, John ^b   Erlandson, Al ^b   Iovanovic, Igor ^b   Ebbers, Chris ^b   Molander, Bill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid; LLNL; Mixed Nd:glass; MLD; Nova; OPCPA; Petawatt

Indexed keywords

GLASS; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

ENERGY DENSITY; PULSE DURATIONS; SYNCHRONIZED LASER SYSTEMS;

LASERS;

EID: 33644595494     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.638939     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. [Per 00] L. J. Perkins, et al., "The Investigation of High-Intensity-Laser-Driven Micro Neutron Sources for Fusion Materials Research at High Fluence," Nuc. Fusion 40, 1 2000.
2. [Dit 99] T. Ditmire, et al., "Nuclear Fusion from Explosions of Femtosecond-Laser Heated Deuterium Cluster," Nature. 398, 492 1999.
3. [Zwe 00] J. Zweiback, T.E. Cowan, J. Hartley, G. Hays, R. Howell R.A. Smith, C. Steinke, and T. Ditmire, "Characterization of Fusion Burn Time in Exploding Deuterium Cluster Plasmas ," Phys. Rev. Lett.,85, 3640 2000.
4. [Mad 04] K. W. Madison, R. Fitzpatrick, P. K. Patel, D. Price, T. Ditmire, "The role of laser pulse duration in Coulomb explosions of deuterium cluster targets" Phys. Rev. A 70, 053201 2004.