Modeling for deformable mirrors and the adaptive optics optimization program
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Fusion Center
We discuss aspects of adaptive optics optimization for large fusion laser systems such as the 192-arm National Ignition Facility (NIF) at LLNL. By way of example, we considered the discrete actuator deformable mirror and Hartmann sensor system used on the Beamlet laser. Beamlet is a single-aperture prototype of the 11-0-5 slab amplifier design for NIF, and so we expect similar optical distortion levels and deformable mirror correction requirements. We are now in the process of developing a numerically efficient object oriented C++ language implementation of our adaptive optics and wavefront sensor code, but this code is not yet operational. Results are based instead on the prototype algorithms, coded-up in an interpreted array processing computer language.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 492017
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-124897; CONF-9610225-33; ON: DE97053205; TRN: 97:019069
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. annual solid state lasers for applications to inertial confinement fusion (ICF), Paris (France), 22-25 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: 18 Mar 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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