Status of the national ignition facility project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3047, Issue , 1997, Pages 16-37

  Lowdermilk, W Howard ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS LASERS; IGNITION; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

LASER DESIGNS; LASER LIGHTS; LASER TECHNOLOGIES; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SHAPED PULSE; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 85018572424     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.294296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. UK/US collaboration on technology develoment takes place under the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement between the UK and US.
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