Trident: a versatile high-power Nd:glass laser facility for inertial confinement fusion experiments

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied Optics 1995-07, Vol.34 (21), p.4274-4283
Hauptverfasser:	Moncur, N K, Johnson, R P, Watt, R G, Gibson, R B
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION DESIGN ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES INERTIAL CONFINEMENT NEODYMIUM LASERS POWER RANGE 100-1000 GW PULSE TECHNIQUES VISIBLE RADIATION
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	1559-128X
DOI:	10.1364/AO.34.004274