Developing enabling optics finishing technologies for the National Ignition Facility

Aikens, David M.; Rich, Lloyd L.; Bajuk, Dan; Slomba, Albert F.

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“…The total area of precision optical surfaces in NIF is nearly 4000 m 2 . The optics and optical systems for NIF are the result of over thirty years of laser and optical materials research and development at national laboratories, universities, and in private industry throughout the world [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Currently NIF's finishing vendors have finished approximately 30% of the optics required for NIF's 192 laser beams.…”

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The National Ignition Facility: enabling fusion ignition for the 21st century

Miller¹,

Moses²,

Wüest³

2004

Nucl. Fusion

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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, when completed in 2008, will contain a 192-beam, 1.8-Megajoule, 500-Terawatt, ultraviolet laser system together with a 10-meter-diameter target chamber and room for 100 diagnostics. NIF is housed in a 26,000 square meter environmentally controlled building and is the world's largest and most energetic laser experimental system. NIF provides a scientific center for the study of inertial confinement fusion and the physics of matter at extreme energy densities and pressures. NIF's energetic laser beams will compress fusion targets to conditions required for thermonuclear burn, liberating more energy than required to initiate the fusion reactions. Other NIF experiments will study physical processes at temperatures approaching 10 8 K and 10 11 bar; conditions that exist naturally only in the interior of stars and planets. NIF is currently configured with four laser beams activated in late 2002. These beams are being regularly used for laser performance and physics experiments and to date nearly 250 system shots have been conducted. NIF's laser beams have generated 106 kilojoules in 23-ns pulses of infrared light and over 16 kJ in 3.5-ns pulses at the third harmonic (351 nm). A number of target experimental systems are being commissioned in support of experimental campaigns. This paper provides a detailed look the NIF laser systems, laser and optical performance, and results from laser commissioning shots. We also discuss NIF's high-energy density and inertial fusion experimental capabilities, the first experiments on NIF, and plans for future capabilities of this unique facility.

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The National Ignition Facility: enabling fusion ignition for the 21st century

Miller¹,

Moses²,

Wüest³

2004

Nucl. Fusion

336

148

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The National Ignition Facility

2004

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Research and progress of rapid polishing technology for large aperture optics

Ban

Zhao

et al. 2018

Sixth International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN 2018)

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Developing enabling optics finishing technologies for the National Ignition Facility

Cited by 4 publications

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The National Ignition Facility: enabling fusion ignition for the 21st century

The National Ignition Facility: enabling fusion ignition for the 21st century

The National Ignition Facility

Research and progress of rapid polishing technology for large aperture optics

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