Centroid stabilization for laser alignment to corner cubes: designing a matched filter

Awwal, Abdul A.  S.; Bliss, Erlan; Brunton, Gordon; Kamm, Victoria Miller; Leach, Richard R.; Lowe-Webb, Roger; Roberts, Randy; Wilhelmsen, Karl

doi:10.1364/AO.56.000A41

Title: Centroid stabilization for laser alignment to corner cubes: designing a matched filter

Journal Article · Tue Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Applied Optics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.000A41· OSTI ID:1342049

Awwal, Abdul A. S.; Bliss, Erlan; Brunton, Gordon; Kamm, Victoria Miller; Leach, Richard R.; Lowe-Webb, Roger; Roberts, Randy; Wilhelmsen, Karl

Automation of image-based alignment of National Ignition Facility high energy laser beams is providing the capability of executing multiple target shots per day. One important alignment is beam centration through the second and third harmonic generating crystals in the final optics assembly (FOA), which employs two retroreflecting corner cubes as centering references for each beam. Beam-to-beam variations and systematic beam changes over time in the FOA corner cube images can lead to a reduction in accuracy as well as increased convergence durations for the template-based position detector. A systematic approach is described that maintains FOA corner cube templates and guarantees stable position estimation.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1342049

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-699141; APOPAI

Journal Information:: Applied Optics, Vol. 56, Issue 1; ISSN 0003-6935

Publisher:: Optical Society of America (OSA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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