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Title: Power balance on a multibeam laser

Abstract

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) cryogenic experiments on the 60-beam OMEGA laser have strict requirements for the laser energy delivered on target to be power balanced in order to maximize target-irradiation uniformity. For OMEGA, this quantity (power balance) is inferred from measurements of the time-integrated energy and time-resolved, spatially integrated temporal profile of each of the 60 beams at the output of the laser. The work presented here proposes a general definition of power balance as measured at the laser output and discusses the conditions that are fundamental to achieving laser power balance. Power balance necessitates equal gain across all stages of amplification, equal net losses across each amplifier stage, equal frequency conversion (from 1053 nm to 351 nm) of all 60 beams, and equal beam path lengths (beam timing). Typical OMEGA ICF laser pulse shapes consist of one or more short (100-ps) “pickets” followed by a shaped “drive” pulse of 1 to 2 ns. For these experiments, power balance is assessed for the pickets and the drive independently, with the ultimate goal of achieving root-mean-square (rms) imbalance across all 60 beams of less than 2% rms on both. Our work presents a comprehensive summary of laser shot campaigns conducted tomore » significantly improve laser power balance from typical rms values of 4.7% and 5.2%, respectively, to the 3% level for both features along with a discussion of future work required to further reduce the rms power imbalance of the laser system.« less

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  1. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
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Research Org.:
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
OSTI Identifier:
1427299
Report Number(s):
2017-150, 1385
Journal ID: ISSN; 0277-786X; 2017-150, 1385, 2342
Grant/Contract Number:  
NA0001944
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Proc. SPIE
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10511; Conference: LASE, San Francisco, CA (United States), 27 Jan-1 Feb 2018
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Power balance, multibeam laser, OMEGA, direct drive, fusion, high-energy density

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Sampat, Sid, Kelly, John H., Kosc, Tanya Z., Donaldson, William R., Waxer, Leon J., Rigatti, Amy, Kwiatkowski, Joseph, Dean, Richard, Moshier, Robert, Romanofsky, Mark, Clarkson, W. Andrew, and Shori, Ramesh K. Power balance on a multibeam laser. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1117/12.2288510.
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Sampat, Sid, Kelly, John H., Kosc, Tanya Z., Donaldson, William R., Waxer, Leon J., Rigatti, Amy, Kwiatkowski, Joseph, Dean, Richard, Moshier, Robert, Romanofsky, Mark, Clarkson, W. Andrew, & Shori, Ramesh K. Power balance on a multibeam laser. United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288510
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Sampat, Sid, Kelly, John H., Kosc, Tanya Z., Donaldson, William R., Waxer, Leon J., Rigatti, Amy, Kwiatkowski, Joseph, Dean, Richard, Moshier, Robert, Romanofsky, Mark, Clarkson, W. Andrew, and Shori, Ramesh K. Thu . "Power balance on a multibeam laser". United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288510. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1427299.
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@article{osti_1427299,
title = {Power balance on a multibeam laser},
author = {Sampat, Sid and Kelly, John H. and Kosc, Tanya Z. and Donaldson, William R. and Waxer, Leon J. and Rigatti, Amy and Kwiatkowski, Joseph and Dean, Richard and Moshier, Robert and Romanofsky, Mark and Clarkson, W. Andrew and Shori, Ramesh K.},
abstractNote = {Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) cryogenic experiments on the 60-beam OMEGA laser have strict requirements for the laser energy delivered on target to be power balanced in order to maximize target-irradiation uniformity. For OMEGA, this quantity (power balance) is inferred from measurements of the time-integrated energy and time-resolved, spatially integrated temporal profile of each of the 60 beams at the output of the laser. The work presented here proposes a general definition of power balance as measured at the laser output and discusses the conditions that are fundamental to achieving laser power balance. Power balance necessitates equal gain across all stages of amplification, equal net losses across each amplifier stage, equal frequency conversion (from 1053 nm to 351 nm) of all 60 beams, and equal beam path lengths (beam timing). Typical OMEGA ICF laser pulse shapes consist of one or more short (100-ps) “pickets” followed by a shaped “drive” pulse of 1 to 2 ns. For these experiments, power balance is assessed for the pickets and the drive independently, with the ultimate goal of achieving root-mean-square (rms) imbalance across all 60 beams of less than 2% rms on both. Our work presents a comprehensive summary of laser shot campaigns conducted to significantly improve laser power balance from typical rms values of 4.7% and 5.2%, respectively, to the 3% level for both features along with a discussion of future work required to further reduce the rms power imbalance of the laser system.},
doi = {10.1117/12.2288510},
journal = {Proc. SPIE},
number = ,
volume = 10511,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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