Gain measurements on a prototype NIF/LMJ amplifier pump cavity

Conference · Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:462885

Rotter, M D; McCracken, R; Erlandson, A ^[1]; Guenet, M ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
2. CEA Centre d`Etudes de Limeil, 94 - Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (France)

We are currently developing large-aperture amplifiers for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Laser Megajoules (LMJ) lasers. These multisegment amplifiers are of the flashlamp-pumped, Nd:Glass qW and are designed to propagate a nominally 36 cm square beam. The apertures within a particular amplifier bundle are arranged in a four- high by two-wide configuration and utilize two side lamp arrays and a central flashlamp array for pumping. The configuration is very similar to that used in the Beamlet laser, a single-beam prototype for the NIF/LMJ lasers, which has four apertures arranged in a two- high by two-wide configuration.

• 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: 462885
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-124518; CONF-9610225-17; ON: DE97051939; TRN: 97:010158
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2. annual solid state lasers for applications to inertial confinement fusion (ICF), Paris (France), 22-25 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES
NEODYMIUM LASERS
OPTICAL PUMPING
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
LASER FUSION REACTORS
ICF DEVICES
AMPLIFIERS
GAIN