TRIDENT - A VERSATILE HIGH-POWER ND-GLASS LASER FACILITY FOR INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION EXPERIMENTS

被引:69
作者
MONCUR, NK [1 ]
JOHNSON, RP [1 ]
WATT, RG [1 ]
GIBSON, RB [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MICHIGAN,CTR ULTRAFAST OPT SCI,ANN ARBOR,MI 48109
来源
APPLIED OPTICS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 21期
关键词
ND; GLASS LASER; FUSION LASER; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;
D O I
10.1364/AO.34.004274
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The Trident Nd:glass laser system operates as an experimental facility supporting the national Inertial Confinement Fusion program at Los Alamos. The laser has two identical main beam lines with 14-cm-disk final amplifiers. The beams are frequency doubled, expanded to 19.2 cm, and focused on target with a variety of focusing optics. A third beam with 10-cm disk final amplifiers is also frequency doubled and used as a target-shooting or diagnostic beam simultaneously with the other two beams. The facility provides a flexible combination of energy, pulse-shaping capabilities, and diagnostic tools for laser-target interaction experiments.
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页码:4274 / 4283
页数:10
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