Performance of the NIF prototype beamlet
Beamlet is a full scale single beam prototype laser system, built to demonstrate the laser technology and performance of the 192 beam National Ignition Facility (NIF) fusion laser driver. Both laser systems apply multipass amplifier architectures. By passing the beam four times through the large aperture amplifier sections, the small signal gain during the first few passes is used efficiently to reduce expensive staged amplifier chains. The beamlet prototype laser integrates results of development programs for large aperture components: large aperture optical switch, polarizers, 2 x 2 multisegment amplifiers and new pulse generation and pre-amplification techniques. The authors report on performance test results of the recently completed 1 {omega}-laser section of Beamlet.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 10180883
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-115580; CONF-940602-19; CONF-940630-48; ON: DE94018500; TRN: 94:008120
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 35. annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society,New Orleans, LA (United States); New Orleans, LA (United States),11-16 Jun 1994; 19-24 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: 20 Jul 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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