Target diagnostic technology research and development for the LLNL ICF and HED program (invited)

Journal Article · Fri Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2004 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1789598· OSTI ID:20641273

Bell, P M; Landen, O L; Weber, F A; Lowry, M E; Bennett, C V; Kimbrough, J R; Moody, J D; Holder, J P; Lerche, R A; Griffith, R L; Park, H S; Boni, R; Jaanimagi, P A; Davies, T ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 9455 (United States)

The National Ignition Facility is operational at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The inertial confinement fusion and HED programs at LLNL have formed diagnostic research and development groups to institute improvements outside the charter of core diagnostics. We will present data from instrumentation being developed. A major portion of our work is improvements to detectors and readout systems. We have efforts related to charge-coupled device (CCD) development. Work has been done in collaboration with the University of Arizona to back thin a large format CCD device. We have developed in collaboration with a commercial vendor a large format, compact CCD system. We have coupled large format CCD systems to our optical and x-ray streak cameras leading to improvements in resolution and dynamic range. We will discuss gate width and uniformity improvements to microchannel plate-based framing cameras. We will present data from single shot data link work and discuss technology aimed at improvements of dynamic range for high-speed transient measurements from remote locations.

• OSTI ID: 20641273
• Journal Information: Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal Name: Review of Scientific Instruments Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 75; ISSN 0034-6748; ISSN RSINAK
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
PLATES
READOUT SYSTEMS
STREAK CAMERAS
TRANSIENTS
US NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY