The Nike KrF laser facility: Performance and initial target experiments

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2098-2107

  Obenschain, S P ^a   Bodner, S E ^a   Colombant, D ^a   Gerber, K ^a   Lehmberg, R H ^a   Mclean, E A ^a   Mostovych, A N ^a   Pronko, M S ^a   Pawley, C J ^a   Schmitt, A J ^a   Sethian, J D ^a   Serlin, V ^a   Stamper, J A ^a   Sullivan, C A ^a   Dahlburg, J P ^a   Gardner, J H ^a   Chan, Y ^b   Deniz, A V ^b   Hardgrove, J ^b   Lehecka, T ^b   Klapisch, M ^c   more..

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c ARTEP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

ABLATION; DIRECT DRIVE LASER IMPLOSION; KRYPTON FLUORIDE LASERS; LASER FUSION REACTORS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMA; LASER RADIATION HEATING; PERFORMANCE

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024817088     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.871661     Document Type: Article

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