Producing National Ignition Facility (NIF)-quality beams on the Nova and Beamlet lasers [electronic resource].
Published
Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1996. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
The Nova and Beamlet lasers were used to simulate the beam propagation conditions that will be encountered during the National Ignition Facility operation. Perturbation theory predicts that there is a 5mm scale length propagation mode that experiences large nonlinear power growth. This mode was observed in the tests. Further tests have confirmed that this mode can be suppressed with improved spatial filtering.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:ucrl-jc--124937 E 1.99: conf-9606116--94 conf-9606116--94 ucrl-jc--124937
Published through SciTech Connect. 08/01/1996. "ucrl-jc--124937" " conf-9606116--94" "DE97051902" Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Reno, NV (United States), 16-20 Jun 1996. Ehrlich, R.B.; Auerbach, J.M.; Widmayer, C.C.