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Review 113 (October-December 2007)

1. High-Intensity LaserŠPlasma Interactions in the Refluxing Limit
2. A High-Resolution Optical Transition Radiation Diagnostic for Fast-Electron Transport Studies
3. Performance of Direct-Drive Cryogenic Targets on OMEGA
4. Initial Experiments on the Shock-Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion Concept
5. Time-Resolved Absorption in Cryogenic and Room-Temperature, Direct-Drive Implosions
6. Monoenergetic Proton Radiography of Inertial Fusion Implosions
7. Publications and Conference Presentations
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Review 112 (July-September 2007)

1. Aperture Tolerances for Neutron-Imaging Systems in Inertial Confinement Fusion
2. Hohlraum Energetics and Implosion Symmetry with Elliptical Phase Plates Using a Multicone Beam Geometry on OMEGA
3. Improved Measurement of Preheat in Cryogenic Targets
4. Laser Channeling in Millimeter-Scale Underdense Plasmas of Fast-Ignition Targets
5. Optimizing a Cleaning Process for Multilayer Dielectric (MLD) Diffraction Gratings
6. Shock Ignition of Thermonuclear Fuel with High Areal Densities
7. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
8. FY07 Laser Facility Report
9. National Laser Users' Facility and External Users' Programs
10. Publications and Conference Presentations
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Review 111 (April-June 2007)

1. Pump-Induced Temporal Contrast Degradation in Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification: Analysis and Experiment
2. Dual Nuclear Product Observations of Shock Collapse in Inertial Confinement Fusion
3. Equation-of-State Measurements in Ta₂O₅ Aerogel
4. EXAFS Measurements of Quasi-Isentropically Compressed Vanadium Targets on the OMEGA Laser
5. The Effect of Resonance Absorption in OMEGA Direct-Drive Designs and Experiments
6. Diagnosing Direct-Drive, Shock-Heated, and Compressed Plastic Planar Foils with Noncollective Spectrally Resolved X-Ray Scattering
7. Publications and Conference Presentations
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Review 110 (January-March 2007)

1. Laser-Driven Magnetic Flux Compressionfor Magneto-Inertial Fusion
2. Gain Curves and Hydrodynamic Simulations of Ignition and Burn for Direct-Drive Fast-Ignition Fusion Targets
3. Femtosecond Optical Generation and Detection of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in GaN Single Crystals
4. Subsurface Damage and Microstructure Development in Precision Microground Hard Ceramics Using MRF Spots
5. Spectral Filtering in a Diode-Pumped Nd:YLF Regenerative Amplifier Using a Volume Bragg Grating
6. Impact of Transverse Spatial-Hole Burning on Beam Quality in Large-Mode-Area Yb-Doped Fibers
7. Time-Dependent Nuclear Measurements of Mix in Inertial Confinement Fusion
8. Publications and Conference Presentations
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Review 109 (October-December 2006)

1. Laser Absorption, Mass Ablation Rate, and Shock Heating in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion
2. Nuclear Measurements of Fuel–Shell Mix in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions on OMEGA
3. Measured Magnetic-Field Evolution and Instabilities in Laser-Produced Plasmas
4. Performance of the 1-MJ, Wetted-Foam Target Design for the National Ignition Facility
5. High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Mass-Limited Solid Targets and Implications for Fast-Ignition Experiments on OMEGA EP
6. Three-Dimensional Characterization of Spherical Cryogenic Targets Using Ray-Trace Analysis of Multiple Shadowgraph Views
7. Filamentation Analysis in Large-Mode-Area Fiber Lasers
8. Averaging of Replicated Pulses for Enhanced-Dynamic-Range, Single-Shot Measurement of Nanosecond Optical Pulses
9. Publications and Conference Presentations
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Review 108 (July-September 2006)

1. Cryogenic DT and D₂ Targets for Inertial Confinement Fusion
2. Structural Dynamics of Cryogenic Target Assemblies
3. Measuring E and B Fields in Laser-Produced Plasmas with Monoenergetic Proton Radiography
4. Evaluation of Cleaning Methods for Multilayer Diffraction Gratings
5. Design and Analysis of Binary Beam Shapers Using Error Diffusion
6. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
7. FY06 Laser Facility Report
8. National Laser Users' Facility and External Users' Programs
9. Publications and Conference Presentations
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Review 107 (April-June 2006)

1. High–Contrast Plasma–Electrode Pockels Cell (PEPC)
2. Absolute Calibration of Kodak Biomax–MS Film Response to X Rays in the 1.5– to 8–keV Energy Range
3. Response Model for Kodak Biomax–MS Film to X Rays
4. High–Yield Bang Time Detector for the OMEGA Laser
5. Operation of Target Diagnostics in a Petawatt Environment
6. Gain Apodization in Highly Doped, Distributed–Feedback (DFB) Fiber Lasers
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Review 106 (January-March 2006)

1. High-Gain, Polarization-Preserving, Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Low-Duty-Cycle Pulse Amplification
2. The Development of Methods and Techniques for the Decontamination of Metals and Alloys
3. Basic Principles of Direct-Drive Ignition Target Design
4. Tests of the Hydrodynamic Equivalence of Direct-Drive Implosions with Different D₂ and ³He Mixtures
5. Deterministically Polarized Fluorescence from Uniaxially Aligned Single-Dye Molecules
6. Fiber-Coupled Single-Photon Detectors Based on NbN Superconducting Nanostructures for Practical Quantum Cryptography and Photon-Correlation Studies
7. Transition Metal Dithiolene Near-IR Dyes and Their Applications in Liquid Crystal Devices
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Review 105 (October-December 2005)

1. Measured Dependence of Nuclear Burn Region Size on Implosion Parameters in Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments
2. Rayleigh–Taylor Growth Measurements of 3-D Modulations in a Nonlinear Regime
3. Isotopic Fractionation During Solidification of H₂–HD–D₂ Mixtures
4. Role of Hydrogen Fractionation in ICF Ignition Target Designs
5. Polar-Direct-Drive Simulations and Experiments
6. A Magnetorheological–Polishing–Based Approach for Studying Precision Microground Surfaces of Tungsten Carbides
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Review 104 (July-September 2005)

1. Three-Dimensional Characterization of Cryogenic Target Ice Layers Using Multiple Shadowgraph Views
2. Shock-Timing Experiments Using Double-Pulse Laser Irradiation
3. Polar Direct Drive - Ignition at 1 MJ
4. Hydrodynamic Simulations of Integrated Experiments Planned for the OMEGA/OMEGA EP Laser Systems
5. Proton Core Imaging of the Nuclear Burn in Interial Confinement Fusion Impolsions
6. Hot-Surface Ionic Line Emission and Cold K-Inner-Shell Emission from Petawatt-Laser-Irradiated Cu Foil Targets
7. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
8. FY05 Laser Facility Report
9. National Laser Users' Facility and External Users' Programs
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Review 103 (April-June 2005)

1. High Density and High αR Fuel Assembly for Fast-Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion
2. Direct-Drive Fuel-Assembly Experiments with Gas-Filled, Cone-in-Shell, Fast-Ignition Targets on the OMEGA Laser
3. Planar Cryogenic Target Handling Capability for the OMEGA Laser-Fusion Facility
4. Fourier-Space, Nonliner Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Measurements of 3-D Laser Imprinted Modualations in Planar Targets
5. Technologies for Mitigating Tritium Releases to the Environment
6. All-Solid-State, Diode-Pumped, Multiharmonic Laser System for Timing Fiducial
7. EXAFS Measurement of Iron bcc-to-hcp Phase Transformation in Nanosecond-Laser Shocks
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Review 102 (January-March 2005)

1. The Saturn Target for Polar Direct Drive on the National Ignition Facility
2. Polar Direct Drive—Proof-of-Principle Experiments on OMEGA and Prospects for Ignition on the National Ignition Facility
3. Direct-Drive, Cryogenic Target Implosions on OMEGA
4. Stopping, Straggling, and Blooming of Directed Energetic Electrons in Hydrogenic Plasmas
5. Multidimensional Analysis of Direct-Drive, Plastic-Shell Implosions on OMEGA
6. Effects of Temporal Density Variation and Convergent Geometry on Nonlinear Bubble Evolution in Classical Rayleigh–Taylor Instability
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Review 101 (October-December 2004)

1. Pulse Design for Relaxation Adiabat-Shaped Targets in Inertial Fusion Implosions
2. Improved Target Stability Using Picket Pulses to Increase and Shape the Ablator Adiabat
3. High-Spacial-Resolution Studies of UV-Laser-Damage Morphology in SiO2 Thin Films with Artificial Defects
4. Minimizing Artifact Formation in Magnetorheological Finishing of CVD ZnS Flats
5. A Multichannel, High-Resolution, UV Spectrometer for Laser-Fusion Applicants
6. Quantum Efficiency and Noise Equivalent Power of Nanostructured, NbN, Single-Photon Detectors in the Wavelength Range from Visible to Infrared
7. Measurement of Preheat due to Fast Electrons in Laser Implosions of Cryogenic Deuterium Targets
8. Publications and Conference Presentations
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Review 100 (July-September 2004)

Review 96 (July-September 2003)

1. The Coherent Addition of Gratings for Pulse Compression in High-Energy Laser Systems
2. Polar Direct Drive on the National Ignition Facility
3. Properties of Fluid Deuterium Under Double-Shock Compression to Several Megabars
4. Independent Phase and Amplitude Control of a Laser Beam Using a Single-Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator
5. Proton Temporal Diagnostic for ICF Experiments on OMEGA
6. Polishing PMMA and Other Optical Polymers with Magnetorheological Finishing
7. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
8. FY03 Laser Facility Report
9. National Laser Users' Facility and External Users' Programs
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Review 88 (July-Sept 2001)
1. Wide-Dynamic-Range "Neutron Bang Time" Detector on OMEGA
2. Functional Damage Thresholds of Hafnia/Silica Coating Designs for the NIF Laser
3. High-Gain Direct Drive Target Designs for the National Ignition Facility
4. Ultrafast Optoelectronic Interface for Digital Superconducting Electronics
5. Optimizing the Fabrication of Polyimide Shells
6. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
7. FY01 Laser Facility Report
8. National Laser Users' Facility News
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Review 87 (April-June 2001)
1. A Self-Calibrating, Multichannel Streak Camera for Inertial Confinement Fusion Applications
2. Evolution of Shell Nonuniformities Near Peak Compression of a Spherical Implosion
3. Multibeam Stimulated Brillouin Scattering from Hot Solid-Target Plasmas
4. Hot-Electron Effect in Superconductors and its Applications for Radiation Sensors
5. Scaling Law for Marginal Ignition
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Review 86 (Jan-March 2001)
1. Characterization of Direct-Drive-Implosion Core Conditions on OMEGA with Time-Resolved Ar K-Shell Spectroscopy
2. Study of Direct-Drive, DT-Gas-Filled-Plastic-Capsule Implosions Using Nuclear Diagnostics on OMEGA
3. A Consistent Measurement-Based Picture of Core-Mix in Direct-Drive Implosions on OMEGA
4. High-Resolution Neutron Imaging of Laser-Imploded DT Targets
5. The Smoothing Performance of Ultrafast Pickets on the NIF
6. Tests of EXAFS on OMEGA: Feasibility for Shock-Heating Measurements
7. Microhardness and Indentation Fracture of Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP)
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Review 85 (Oct-Dec 2000)
1. Theory of the Hot-Spot Dynamics and Deceleration-Phase Instability of Imploding ICF Capsules
2. The Effect of Shock Heating on the Stability of Laser-Driven Targets
3. Spherical Cavity Epansion in Material with Densification
4. Design and Performance of a Selectable-Rate Streak Camera Deflection Ramp Generator
5. Unique High-Bandwidth, UV Fiber Delivery System for OMEGA Diagnostics Applications
6. Fabrication and Properties of an Ultrafast NbN Hot-Electron Single-Photon Detector
7. Preliminary Design of NIF 2-D SSD
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Review 84 (July-Sept 2000)
1. Optical and Plasma Smoothing of Laser Imprinting in Targets Driven by Lasers with SSD Bandwidths up to 1 THz
2. Analysis of a Direct-Drive Ignition Capsule Designed for the National Ignition Facility
3. Core Performance and Mix in Direct-Drive Spherical Implosions with High Uniformity
4. Secondary-Neutron-Yield Measurements by Current-Mode Detectors
5. Fourier-Space Image Processing for Spherical Experiments on OMEGA
6. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
7. FY00 Laser Facility Report
8. National Laser Users' Facility News
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Review 83 (April-June 2000)
1. Imaging of Laser-Plasma X-Ray Emission with Charge-Injection Devices (CID's)
2. X-Ray Spectroscopid Measurements of Areal Density and Modulations of Compressed Shells in Implosion Experiments on OMEGA
3. Secondary D-3He Proton Spectra from D2-Filled OMEGA Targets
4. Comparison of a Liquid Crystal Point-Diffraction Interferometer and a Commercial Phase-Shifting Interferometer
5. Understanding the Mechanism of Glass Removal in Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF)
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Review 82 (Jan-March 2000)
1. OMEGA Cryogenic Target Designs
2. Imprint Reduction Using an Intensity Spike in OMEGA Cryogenic Targets
3. Measurement of Preheat due to Fast Electrons in Laser Implosions
4. Holographic Transmission Gratings for Spectral Dispersion
5. Laser Beam Smoothing Caused by the Small-Spatial-Scale B-Integral
6. Three-Dimensional Modeling of Capsule Implosions in OMEGA Tetrahedral Hohlraums
7. Nanoindentation Hardness of Particles Used in Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF)
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Review 81 (Oct-Dec 1999)
1. Stability Analysis of Directly Driven NIF Capsules
2. Initial Performance of the High-Pressure DT-Filling Portion of the Cryogenic Target Handling System
3. Modeling the Temperature and Ice-Thickness Profiles Within OMEGA Cryogenic Targets
4. Target Detection and Shroud Pull Sequencing for Cryogenic-Target Operations on the OMEGA System
5. The Effect of Optical Prepulse on Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Performance
6. Design and Synthesis of Near-Infrared Absorbing Dyes for the Liquid Crystal Point-Diffraction Interferometer (LCPDI)
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Review 80 (July-Sept 1999)
1. Modeling Laser Imprint for Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
2. Stability of Self-Focused Filaments in Laser-Produced Plasmas
3. Broadband Beam Smoothing on OMEGA with Two-Dimensional Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
4. The Effect of Pulse Shape on Laser Imprinting and Beam Smoothing
5. The Output Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Nd:YLF Regenerative Amplifier
6. Development of New Magnetorheological Fluids for Polishing CaF2 and KDP
7. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
8. FY99 Laser Facility Report
9. National Laser Users' Facility News
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Review 79 (Apr-June 1999)
1. Direct-Drive Target Designs for the National Ignition Facility
2. Numerical Investigation of Characterization of Thick Cryogenic-Fuel Layers Using Convergent Beam Interferometry
3. Studies of Target Implosion Using K-Shell Absorption Spectroscopy of an Embedded Titanium Layer
4. Experimental Investigation of Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
5. Nonlinear Evolution of Broad-Bandwidth, Laser-Imprinted Nonuniformities in Planar Targets Accelerated by 351-nm Laser Light
6. Uniaxial/Biaxial Stress Paradox in Optical-Materials Hardening
7. Observation of Electron Trapping in an Intense Laser Beam
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Review 78 (Jan-Mar 1999)
1. High-Frequency Bulk Phase Modulator for Broadband Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion on OMEGA
2. Angular Spectrum Representation of Pulsed Laser Beams with Two-Dimensional Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
3. Hollow-Shell Implosion Studies on the 60-Beam, UV OMEGA Laser System
4. Simultaneous Measurements of Fuel Areal Density, Shell Areal Density, and Fuel Temperature in D3He-Filled Imploding Capsules
5. The Design of Optical Pulse Shapes with an Aperture-Coupled-Stripline Pulse-Shaping System
6. Measurement Technique for Characterization of Rapidly Time- and Frequency-Varying Electronic Devices
7. Damage to Fused-Silica, Spatial-Filter Lenses on the OMEGA Laser System
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Review 77 (Oct-Dec 1998)
1. Laser-Plasma Interactions in Long-Scale-Length Plasmas Under Direct-Drive National Ignition Facility Conditions
2. Irradiation Uniformity for High-Compression Laser-Fusion Experiments
3. A Novel Charged-Particle Diagnostic for rR in Compressed ICF Targets
4. Arresting UV-Laser Damage in Fused Silica
5. Theory of the Ablative Richtmeyer-Meshkov Instability
6. Reverse Intersystem Crossing from a Triplet State of Rose Bengal Populated by Sequential 532-nm plus 1064-nm Laser Excitation
7. Picosecond Response of Optically Driven Y-Ba-Cu-O Microbridge and Josephson-Junction Integrated Structures
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Review 76 (July-Sept 1998)
1. Highly Stable, Diode-Pumped Master Oscillator for the OMEGA Laser Facility
2. Regenerative Amplifier for the OMEGA Laser System
3. Transient Bandwidth Analysis of Photoconductive Microwave Switches Implemented in the OMEGA Pulse-Shaping System
4. Simulations of Near-Field Intensity Modulations in High-Intensity Laser Beams due to Self- and Cross-Phase Modulation Between Orthogonally Polarized Laser Beams Emerging from a Diamond-Tuned KDP Wedge
5. X-Ray Radiographic System Used to measure the Evolution of Broadband Imprint in Laser-Driven Planar Targets
6. Collisionless Damping of Localized Plasma Waves in Laser-Produced Plasmas and Application to Stimulated Raman Scattering in Filaments
7. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
8. FY98 Laser Facility Report
9. National Laser Users' Facility News
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Review 75 (Apr-June 1998)
1. Demonstration of Dual-Tripler, Broadband Third Harmonic Generation and Implications for OMEGA and the NIF
2. Ultrahigh Dynamic Range Measurement of High-Contrast Pulses Using a Second-Order Autocorrelator
3. Using Ion-Beam Techniques to Determine the Elemental Composition of ICF Targets
4. Ka Cold-Target Imaging and Preheat Measurement Using a Pinhole-Array X-Ray Spectrometer
5. Forward and Backward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering of Crossed Laser Beams
6. Landau Damping and Transit-Time Damping of Localized Plasma Waves in General Geometries
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Review 74 (Jan-Mar 1998)
1. The Development of Ion-Etched Phase Plates
2. A High-Resolution X-Ray Microscope for Laser-Driven Planar-Foil Experiments
3. Measurements of Core and Pusher Conditions in Surrogate Capsule Implosions on the OMEGA Laser System
4. Accurate Formulas for the Landau Dampting Rates of Electrostatic Waves
5. Efficient, End-Pumped, 1053-nm Nd:YLF Laser
6. Self- and Cross-Phase-Modulation Coefficients in KDP Crystals Measured by a Z-Scan Technique
7. Micromechanics of Material-Removal Mechanisms from Brittle Surfaces: Subsurface Damage and Surface Microroughness
8. Cholestric Liquid Crystal Flakes- A New Form of Domain
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Review 73 (Oct-Dec 1997)
1. A High-Bandwidth Electrical-Waveform Generator Based on Aperture-Coupled Striplines for OMEGA Pulse-Shaping Applications
2. Sweep Deflection Circuit Development Using Computer-Aided Circuit Design for the OMEGA Multichannel Streak Camera
3. D-3He Protons as a Diagnostic for Target rR
4. Growth Rates of the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Inertial Confinement Fusion
5. Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Power Transfer Between Crossed Laser Beams
6. Characterization of Freestanding Polymer Films for Application in 351-nm, High-Peak-Power Laser Systems
7. Subsurface Damage in Microgrinding Optical Glasses
8. Bound-Abrasive Polishers for Optical Glass
9. Color Gamut of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Films and Flakes by Standard Colorimetry
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Review 72 (July-Sept 1997)
1. OMEGA Experimental Program and Recent Results
2. Imaging the Cold, Compressed Shell in Laser Implosions Using the Ka Flourescence of a Titanium Dopant
3. Near-Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
4. Pulse Shaping on the OMEGA Laser System
5. Angular-Scattering Characteristics of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Electro-Optical Devices Operating in the TSM and ESM Modes
6. Magnetorheological Finishing of IR Materials
7. Integrated Circuit Tester Using Interferometric Imaging
8. LLE's Summer High School Research Program
9. Laser Facility Report
10. National Laser Users' Facility News
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Review 71 (April-June 1997)
1. The Effect of Increased Irradiation Uniformity on Imprinting by 351-nm Laser Light
2. Single-Mode Rayleigh-Taylor Growth-Rate Measurements with the OMEGA Laser System
3. Fabrication of Polyimide shells for Use as ICF Targets
4. Sideward Stimulated Raman Scattering of a Short Laser Pulse in a Plasma Channel
5. Picosecond Photoresponse in Polycrystalline Silicon
6. Thermal Distortions in Laser-Diode- and Flash-Lamp-Pumped Nd:YLF Laser Rods
7. The OMEGA Target-Positioning System
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Review 70 (Jan-Mar 1997)
1. Status of Optics on the OMEGA Laser after Eighteen Months of Operation
2. A Single-Beam, Ponderomotive-Optical Trap for Energetic Free Electrons
3. A Diode-Pumped Nd:YLF Master Oscillator for the OMEGA Laser
4. Heat Transfer from Localized Absorbing Defects to the Host Coating Material in HfO2/SiO2 351-nm High Reflectors
5. Signatures of Target Performance and Mixing in Titanium-Doped Target Implosions on OMEGA
6. Dephasing Time of an Electron Accelerated by a Laser Pulse
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Review 69 (Oct-Dec 1996)
1. Two-Dimensional SSD on OMEGA
2. Areal Density Measurement of Laser Targets Using Absorption Lines
3. Modeling the Temporal-Pulse-Shape Dynamics of an Actively Stabilized Regenerative Amplifier for OMEGA Pulse-Shaping Applications
4. Multiple Scale Derivation of the Relativistic Ponderomotive Force
5. Subpicosecond Imaging Based on Electro-Optic Effect
6. Nuclear Diagnostics for High-Density Implosions
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Review 68 (July-Sept 1996)
1. Proof-of-Principle Hohlraum Experiments
2. Tetrahedral Hohlraums-An Alternative Approach to Indirect Drive on OMEGA and the NIF
3. Properties of the Speckle of Focused, Phase-Converted Laser Beams and the Reduction of Time-Averaged Irradiation Nonuniformity in Laser-Driven Plasmas due to Target Ablation
4. Microwave Phase Modulators for Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
5. Design and Testing of a Large-Aperature, High-Gain, Brewster's-Angle, Zig-Zag Nd:Glass Slab Amplifier
6. Laser Facility Report
7. NLUF News
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Review 67 (April-June 1996)
1. Brillouin Scattering in Long-Scale-Length Laser Plasmas
2. Power Exchange between Crossed Laser Beams and the Associated Frequency Cascade
3. Electron Acceleration by a Laser Pulse in a Plasma
4. A New Approach to the Analysis of the Thermal Equilibration of Optically Excited States
5. Overview of the Design and Implementation of the OMEGA Laser Control System Software
6. Cancellation of B-Integral Accumulation for CPA Lasers
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Review 66 (Jan-March 1996)
1. Initial Shell Convergence Measurements Using OMEGA's 60 Unsmoothed Beams
2. A Framed Monochromatic X-Ray Microscope for ICF
3. Abel Inversion of Emission and Backlighting Images
4. Two-Dimensional Analysis of the Power Transfer between Crossed Laser Beams
5. Low-Surface-Energy Photoresist as a Medium for Optical Replication
6. Surface Microroughness of Optical Glasses under Deterministic Microgrinding
7. Thermotropic Chiral Nematic Side-Chain Polymers and Cyclic Oligomers
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Review 65 (Oct-Dec 1995)
1. High-Efficiency Distributed Phase Plate Generation and Characterization
2. Diagnosis of Shell-Core Mixing Using Absorption and Emission Spectra of a Doped Layer
3. Self-Consistent Stability Analysis of Ablation Fronts with Large Froude Numbers
4. Design and Implementation of the OMEGA Power Conditioning Executive
5. Upconversion and Reduced 4F3/2 Upper-State Lifetime in Intensely Pumped Nd:YLF
6. A New Ti:Sapphire Laser System: A Source of Femtosecond Pulses Turnable from Ultraviolet to Infrared
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Review 64 (Jul-Sept 1995)
1. Initial Target Experiments on the Upgraded OMEGA Laser System
2. Diagnosis of High-Temperature Implosions Using Low- and High-Opacity Krypton Lines
3. Simulations of Diagnostic Emission due to Fuel-Pusher Mixing in Laser-Driven Implosions
4. Distributed-Phase-Plate Design Using Simulated Annealing Algorithms
5. Self-Interference Patterns and Their Application to Target Characterization
6. Femtosecond Study of the Electronic Structure in Semiconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O
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Review 63 (Apr-Jun 1995)
1. Initial Performance Results of the OMEGA Laser System
2. A Novel Energy Measurement System for the OMEGA Laser
3. Self-Consistent Cutoff Wave Number of the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
4. Distributed Phase Plates for Super-Gaussian Focal-Plane Irradiance Profiles
5. Electro-Optic Sampling of 1.5-ps Photoresponse Signals from YBa2Cu3O7-d Thin Films
6. Magnetorheological Finishing-A Deterministic Process for Optics Manufacturing
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Review 62 (Jan-March 1995)
1. An Intrinsic Laser-Damage Mechanism in Next-Generation OMEGA UV Multilayer Coatings
2. The OMEGA Laser Pulse-Shaping System
3. Direct-Drive Irradiation Uniformity for the NIF
4. Direct Measurements of Terminal-Leval Lifetime in Nd:YLF
5. Light-Emitting Porous Silicon: Materials Science, Properties, and Device Applications
6. Time-Dependent Reflection and Surface Temperatues during CO2 Laser Irradiation of Dental Hard Tissues with 100-ms Pulses
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Review 61 (Oct-Dec 1994)
1. Krypton Spectoscopy Diagnosis of High-Temperature Implosions
2. Direct Measurements of the Ion-Acoustic Decay Instability in a Laser-Produced, Large-Scale, Hot Plasma
3. Frequency-Domain Interferometer for Measurement of the Group-Velocity Walkaway of Ultrashort Pulses in Birefringent Media
4. Transient Flux Dynamics in Optically Irradiated YBCO Thin-Film Switches
5. Slurry Particle Size Evolution during the Polishing of Optical Glass
6. Effect of Thermal and Mechanical Processing on Molecular Ordering in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
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Review 60 (July-Sept 1994)
1. Highly Efficient Second-Harmonic Generation of Ultra-Intense Nd:Glass Laser Pulses
2. Multiple Cutoff Wave Numbers of the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
3. Ultrafast, All-Silicon Light Modulator
4. Angular Dependence of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Homogeneous Plasma
5. Femtosecond Excited-State Dynamics of a Conjugated Ladder Polymer
6. OMEGA Upgrade Status Report 10/1/93-9/30/94
7. NLUF News
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Review 59 (April-June 1994)
1. Atomic Force Microscopy Observation of Water-Induced Morphological Changes in Y2O3 Monolayer Coatings
2. Observation of Longitudinal Acceleration of Electrons Born in a High-Intensity Laser Focus
3. Spatial Intensity Nonuniformities of an OMEGA Beam due to Nonlinear Beam Propagation
4. Calculated X-Ray Backlighting Images of Mixed Imploded Targets
5. Evaluation of Cosmic Rays for Use in the Monitoring of the MEDUSA Scintillator-Photomultiplier Diagnostic Array
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Review 58 (Jan-March 1994)
1. Target Imaging and Backlighting Diagnosis
2. Effect of Electron Collisions on Ion-Acoustic Waves and Heat Flow
3. Particle-in-Cell Code Simulations of the Interaction of Gaussian Ultrashort Laser Pulses with Targets of Varying Initial Scale Lengths
4. Characterization of Thick Cryogenic Fuel Layers: Compensation for the Lens Effect Using Convergent Beam Interferometry
5. Compact, Multijoule-Output, Nd:Glass, Large-Aperture Ring Amplifier
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Review 57 (Oct-Dec 1993)
1. Stability Analysis of Unsteady Ablation Fronts
2. Characterization of Laser-Produced Plasma Density Profiles Using Grid Image Refractometry
3. Transport and Sound Waves in Plasmas with Light and Heavy Ions
4. Three-Halves-Harmonic Radiation from Long-Scale-Length Plasmas Revisited
5. OMEGA Upgrade Status Report
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Review 56 (July-Sept 1993)
1. Numerical Investigation of the Self-Focusing of Broad-Bandwidth Laser Light with Applied Angular Dispersion
2. Laser Patterning of Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin-Film Circuits
3. Fabrication of Foam Shells Overcoated with Plastic Layers
4. NLUF News
5. GDL Facility Report
6. OMEGA Upgrade Status Report
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Review 55 (April-June 1993)
1. Implicit and Conservative Difference Scheme for the Fokker-Planck Equation
2. New Diagnostic Features in the Spectra of Recent Argon-Filled-Target Implosions on OMEGA
3. Phase Conversion of Lasers with Low-Loss Distributed Phase Plates
4. Nematic Polymer Liquid-Crystal Wave Plate for High-Power Lasers at 1054 nm
5. GDL Facility Report
6. The Upgrade to the OMEGA Laser System
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Review 54 (Jan-Mar 1993)
1. OMEGA Decommissioning
2. Fokker-Planck Modeling of Electron Transport
3. Strategies for Ultra-High Laser Uniformity Using Zero-Correlation Phase Masks
4. Fast, Optically Triggered, Superconducting Opening Switches
5. Strong Ka Emission in Picosecond Laser-Plasma Interactions
6. Angular Distribution of High-Order Harmonics from Low-Density Gas Targets
7. Novel Gas Target for Use in Laser Harmonic Generation
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Review 53 (Oct-Dec 1992)
1. High-Speed, Gated X-Ray Imaging for ICF Target Experiments
2. Characterization of Microchannel-Plate Detectors for High-Speed, Gated X-Ray Imaging by Electro-Optic Sampling
3. Neutron Streak- and Framing-Camera Diagnostics for ICF Implosions
4. Nuclear Diagnostics for the OMEGA Upgrade
5. Temporal Pulse-Width Control of the OMEGA and GDL Laser Oscillators
6. Shaping of Nanosecond Linearly Chirped Pulses
7. NLUF Facility News
8. GDL Facility Report
9. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 52 (July-Sept 1992)
1. A Strategy for Laser-Beam Power Balance on the OMEGA Upgrade
2. Damping of Ion-Acoustic Waves in the Presence of Electron-Ion Collisions
3. Optical Nonlinearities in High-Temperature Superconductors
4. Increased Retention Time for Hydrogen and Other Gases by Polymer Shells Using Optically Transparent Aluminum Layers
5. Raman Scattering of High-Power Lasers in Air
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 51 (April-June 1992)
1. Nonlinear Interactions in Long-Scale-Length Plasmas
2. Thermal Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
3. Anomalous Optical Response of Superconducting Films
4. High-Reflectance Transport-Mirror Development for the OMEGA Upgrade
5. An Externally Triggered, Single-Mode, Nd-YLF Laser Oscillator
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 50 (Jan-March 1992)
1. High-Efficiency Holographic Gratings for High-Power Laser Systems
2. Shaping and Measuring a Laser Pulse Using Spectral Beam Deflection
3. Measuring Laser-Plasma X-Ray Emission using Photodiode Arrays
4. Ionization of Atoms with Intense, Linearly and Circularly Polarized, Picosecond Laser Pulses
5. Femtosecond Nonlinearities and Hot-Carrier Dynamics in GaAs
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 49 (Oct-Dec 1991)
1. Interpretation of Recent Argon Experiments on OMEGA
2. Nonlocal Heat-Transport Effects on the Filamentation of Light in Plasmas
3. Microstructural Control of Thin-Film Thermal Conductivity
4. Energy Transport in a Modern Disk Amplifier
5. GDL Facility Report
6. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 48 (Jul-Sept 1991)
1. Results of Imploding-Target Burnthrough Experiments Using SSD Smoothing
2. A Practical Nonlocal Model for Electron Heat Transport in Laser Plasmas
3. Explosion Fraction Measurements on Water-Cooled Xenon Flashlamps
4. Perflourinated Copolymer Coatings for High Power Laser Applications
5. Time-Resolved Study of Surface Disordering of Pb(110)
6. Summer Research Program for High School Students
7. NLUF News
8. GDL Facility Report
9. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 47 (April-June 1991)
1. Production and Characterization of Hot, Long-Scale-Length Laser Plasmas
2. Diagnosis of Laser-Compressed Shells Based on Absorption of Core Radiation
3. Fokker-Planck Simulations of Laser Filamentation in Plasmas
4. Picosecond Characterization of Bent Coplanar Waveguides
5. Angle-Resolved X-Ray Photoemission Study of the Surface Disordering of Pb(100)
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 46 (Jan-March 1991)
1. The Effect of Photoelectric Flourescence on the Formation of X-Ray Absorption Lines in Laser-Plasma Experiments
2. Transverse Instabilities of Counterpropogating Light Waves
3. Experimental Investigation of Bessel-Beam Characteristics
4. X-Ray Imaging with Kirkpatrick-Baez Microscopes
5. Phase Noise in Mode-Locked Laser-Pulse Trains
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 45 (Oct-Dec 1990)
1. Phase Conversion Using Distributed Polarization Rotation
2. Hydrodynamic Simulation of Non-LTE Atomic Physics of High-Density Implosions of Argon-Filled, Polymer-Shell Targets
3. Satellite Absorption Lines and the Temperature Dependence of X-Ray Absorption Features in High-Temperature Plasmas
4. Application of KTP Cyrstal as an Electro-Optic Amplitude Modulator
5. Nonresonant Obtained by Nearly Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Using Chirped-Pulse Technology
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 44 (July-Sept 1990)
1. OMEGA Upgrade System Design Update
2. Simulated Rotational Raman Scattering in Air
3. Energy Transport Measurements in a Multisegmented Amplifier (MSA)
4. Disk Amplifier Design for the OMEGA Updrade
5. Development of Optical Coatings for the OMEGA Upgrade
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 43 (April-June 1990)
1. Theoretical Interpretation of OMEGA Glass-Ablator Cryogenic Implosion Experiments
2. Analysis of Neutron Time-of-Flight Data
3. Precise Control of the OMEGA Laser
4. Transparent Conductive Coating of KDP Using Ion-Assisted Deposition
5. Transient-Surface Debye-Waller Effect
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 42 (Jan-March 1990)
1. Electron Kinetics in Laser-Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion
2. Fabrication of Plastic Shells
3. Observation of Gain in XUV Transitions in Ne-like and Li-like Ions
4. Electro-Optic Imaging of Surface Electric Fields in High-Power Photoconductive Switches
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 41 (Oct-Dec 1989)
1. Saturation and Power Balance in Multibeam Lasers for Laser Fusion
2. Numerical Modeling of Effects of Power Balance on Irradiation Nonuniformities
3. Laser-Beam Apodizer Utilizing Gradient-Index Optical Effects in Liquid Crystals
4. Laser Ionization of Noble Gases by Coulomb Barrier Suppression
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 40 (July-Sept 1989)
1. Recent Gas-Filled Implosion Experiments on OMEGA
2. The Role of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Burn-Through Experiments
3. Anticipated Improvement in Laser-Beam Uniformity Using Distributed Phase Plates with Quasi-Random Patterns
4. Uniform Liquid-Fuel Layer Produced in a Cryogenic Target by a Time-Dependent Thermal Gradient
5. A New Shearing Interferometer for Real-Time Characterization of Cryogenic Laser-Fusion Targets
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 39 (April-June 1989)
1. OMEGA Upgrade Preliminary Design
2. Target Experimental System
3. Interaction of Picosecond Optical Pulse with High-Temperature Superconductors
4. NLUF News
5. GDL Facility Report
6. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 38 (Jan-March 1989)
1. Direct-Drive, High-Gain, Hydrodynamics Equivalent Experiments Facility
2. Laser Design and Performance
3. CASER- A new Code for Calculating the X-Ray Laser Emission from Line-Focus Plasmas
4. Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Measurements of High Density in Ar-Filled Microballoon Implosions
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 37 (Oct-Dec 1988)
1. Effects of Illumination Nonuniformities on Direct-Drive ICF Implosions
2. Implementation of Power Balance on OMEGA
3. Improved Laser-Beam Uniformity by the Angular Dispersion of Frequency-Modulated Light
4. Broadband Phase Conversion Using SSD
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 36 (July-Sept 1988)
1. Diagnosing High Density with "Knock Ons"
2. A Semiautomated Knock-On Recording System
3. Neutron Diagnostics
4. Beam Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
5. Two-Dimensional, Nonlocal Electron Transport in Laser-Produced Plasmas
6. Multiphoton Ionization Experiments
7. NLUF News
8. GDL Facility Report
9. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 35 (April-June 1988)
1. Cryogenic Laser-Fusion Target Experiments
2. Effect of Barrier Layers on Burn-Through Time in Parylene
3. Barrier-Layer Experiments and Initial Plasma Formation in Laser Plasma
4. Laser Damage in p-Electron Systems
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 34 (Jan-March 1988)
1. Observations of Enhanced Thomson Scattering
2. Bounce-Coated Ablation Layers on Fusion Targets
3. Optical Probes for the Characterization of Surface Breakdown
4. Regenerative Amplification in Alexandrite of Pulses from Specialized Oscillators
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 33 (Oct-Dec 1987)
1. OMEGA Phase Conversion with Distributed Phase Plates
2. An Advanced Cryogenic Target-Positioning System
3. The Design and Optimization of Recombination X-Ray Lasers
4. Near-Infrared Dichroism of a Mesogenic Transition Metal Complex and Its Solubility in Nematic Hosts
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 32 (Jul-Sept 1987)
1. rR Measurements Using Secondary Reactions
2. A High-Repetition-Rate, Cr:Nd:GSGG Active-Mirror Amplifier
3. Counterpropagating Pulses for Ultrahigh-Frequency Electro-Optic Time-Domain Reflectometry
4. A Substrate-Independent Noncontact Electro-Optic Probe Using Total Internal Reflection
5. Picosecond-Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction
6. Radial Compression of Picosecond Electrical Pulses
7. NLUF News
8. GDL Facility Report
9. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 31 (April-June 1987)
1. A Summary of Recent High-Density Experiments on OMEGA
2. Absorption and Radiation of Energy from Spherically Irradiated Targets
3. A Source of Hot Spots in Frequency-Tripled Laser Light
4. High-Power Laser Interferometry
5. En Route to the Petawatt
6. NLUF News
7. GDL Facility Report
8. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 30 (Jan-March 1987)
1. X-Ray Microscopy of Inertial Fusion Targets Using a Laser-Produced Plasma as an X-Ray Source
2. Improvements in the Coefficient for Inverse Bremsstrahlung Laser Absorption
3. Studies of New Geometries for X-Ray Lasers
4. NLUF News
5. GDL Facility Report
6. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 29 (Oct-Dec 1986)
1. Effect of Laser Illumination Nonuniformity on the Analysis of Time-Resolved
X-Ray Measurements in UV Spherical Transport Experiments
2. High-Resolution XUV Spectroscopy Using the OMEGA Laser
3. The Study of Shock Launching in Silicon Using Pulsed X-Ray Diffraction
4. Thermal Conductivity in Dielectric Thin Films
5. NLUF News
6. GDL Facility Report
7. OMEGA Facility Report
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Review 28 (July-Sept 1986)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Optical Fiducials for X-Ray Streak Cameras
4. Thermodynamics of a Polarizable One-Component Plasma
5. Laser-Fusion-Target Implosion Studies with OMEGA
6. Thermal Self-Focusing with Multiple Laser Beams
7. Multiple X-Ray Diffraction in Crystals: Application to Two-Dimensional Imaging and Low-Loss Transmission
8. Propagation of Femtosecond Electrical Pulses on Superconducting Transmission Lines
9. The Image Analysis Laboratory Facility for Processing Film Data
10. NLUF News
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Review 27 (April-June 1986)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Neutron Diagnosis of Compressed ICF Targets
4. Modeling Nonlocal Heat Flow in Laser-Produced Plasmas
5. Protective Polymeric Coatings for Nonlinear Optical Materials
6. Time-Resolved Observation of Electron-Phonon Relaxation in Copper
7. Noncontact Electro-Optic Sampling with GaAs Injection Laser
8. NLUF News
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Review 26 (Jan-March 1986)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Parametric Instabilities Driven by Two Pumps in Laser-Fusion Plasmas
4. Characterization of Laser-Generated X-Ray Sources for Nuclear Level Excitation
5. A Time-Resolving, Conically Curved Crystal Spectrograph for Laser-Plasma Studies
6. Ultrafast Device Characterization- The Five-Picosecond Transistor
7. Nodular Defects in Optical Coatings
8. NLUF News
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Review 25 (Oct-Dec 1985)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. A Kilojoule-Scale Active Mirror System
4. Numerical Simulation of Recent, 24-Beam, Blue (351-nm) OMEGA Implosion Experiments
5. Computerized, Wide-Bandwidth, Multichannel, Soft X-Ray Diode Spectrometer for High-Density-Plasma Diagnosis
6. Ion-Exchange Strengthening of Nd-Doped Phosphate Laser Glass
7. Short-Pulse Amplification Using Pulse-Compression Techniques
8. NLUF News
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Review 24 (July-Sept 1985)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. High-Aspect-Ratio Laser-Fusion Targets Driven by 24-Beam UV-Laser Radiation
4. Absorption Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic for Highly Compressed Targets
5. Ablation-Layer Coating of Mechanically Unsupported Inertial Fusion Targets
6. Liquid Crystal Soft Apertures
7. Genesis of Melting
8. Picosecond Electro-Electron Optic Oscilloscope
9. NLUF News
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Review 23 (April-June 1985)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. OMEGA Uniformity Program
4. Synchronization of Two Actively Mode-Locked and Actively Q-Switched Oscillators
5. Temporal Dependence of the Mass-Ablation Rate in UV-Laser-Irradiated Spherical Targets
6. Short-Wavelength, Single-Shell, Direct-Drive Pellet Designs
7. Stimulated Raman Scattering in a Collisional Homogeneous Plasma
8. Measuring Chemically Induced Optical Degradation in Dialectric Thin Films
9. NLUF News
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Review 22 (Jan-March 1985)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Absorption-Lines Measurement of Tamper rDR in Laser-Imploded Targets
4. X-Ray Conversion Measurements from High-Z Spherical Targets
5. Effects of Non-Maxwellian Electron Populations in Non-LTE Simulations of Laser-Plasma Thermal Transport and Implosion Experiments
6. Synchronously Pumped, Colliding-Pulse, Mode-Locked Dye Laser
7. Dynamically Loaded Scratch Tester for Thin-Film Adhesion Measurements
8. Characterization of Ultrafast Devices Using Electro-Optic Sampling
9. NLUF News
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Review 21 (Oct-Dec 1984)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. GDL Facility Upgrade
4. Retrofit of the GDL System with Liquid Crystal Polarizers
5. Simplified Theory of Electron Heat Transport
6. Aluminum/Aluminum-Nitride Sputter Deposition on the Inertial Fusion Target Using the Pulsed-Gas Process
7. Multibeam, Laser-Imploded Cylindrical Plasmas
8. Two-Dimensional Electric Field Mapping with Subpicosecond Resolution
9. Kilohertz, Synchronous Amplification of 85-fs Optical Pulses
10. NLUF News
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Review 20 (July-Sept 1984)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. A New Front-End Design for OMEGA
4. Irradiation Uniformity Measurements for Six UV (351-nm) OMEGA Beams
5. Polymer Microballoon Development
6. Limits on the Flux Limiter and Preheat from Analysis of Implosion Experiments with 1054-nm Illumination
7. Lasers in Angioplasty
8. A New Engineering Damage Criterion for Thin-Film Optical Coatings
9. NLUF News
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Review 19 (April-June 1984)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. A New Model of Raman Spectra in Laser-Produced Plasma
4. Diagnostic Value of Odd-Integer Half-Harmonic Spectra
5. Illumination Uniformity Considerations for Direct-Drive Fusion Reactors
6. Subpicosecond Electro-Optic Sampling Using Coplanar Strip Transmission Lines
7. An Ultra-Stable Nd:YAG-Based Laser Source
8. NLUF News
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Review 18 (Jan-March 1984)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. OMEGA Energy Measurement
4. Holographic Wavefront Measurement of the GDL Frequency-Converted Laser Beam
5. Hydrodynamic Simulations of Thermal Self-Focusing in Laser-Generated Plasmas
6. Time-Dependent Semiclassical Theory of Gain-Coupled Distribution Feedback Lasers
7. Pulse Shaping with Dispersive Microstriplines
8. NLUF News
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Review 17 (Oct-Dec 1983)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. OMEGA Wavelength Conversion
4. Absorption and Hot-Electron Generation Measurements with Spherically Illuminated Targets at l = 351 nm
5. Parametric Instabilities in Underdense Spherical Plasmaas with l = 351 nm Illumination
6. Thermal Transport and Preheat Measurements with Spherically Illuminated Targets at l = 351 nm
7. Time-Resolved, Laser-Induced Phase Transition in Aluminum
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Review 16 (July-Sept 1983)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Automated Crystal Tuning for OMEGA Frequency Conversion
4. Time-Resolved X-Ray Photograpy of Imploding Shells
5. Magnetic Field Effects on Electron Heat Transport
6. Statistical Ray Tracing in Plasmas with Random Density Fluctuations
7. Automated Control and Monitoring of Ablation-Layer Coating
8. Progress in Drill, Fill, and Plug Target Fabrication
9. Picosecond Fluorescence of Biomolecules
10. Picosecond Sampling with Electron Pulses
11. NLUF News
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Review 15 (April-June 1983)
1. OMEGA Facility Report
2. GDL Facility Report
3. Target-Designs with Multi-Frequency Irradiation
4. Hydrodynamic-Efficiency Measurements on Planar Targets
5. Theory of the Two-Plasmon Decay Instability in a Filament
6. Three-Halves Harmonic Spectra and Self-Focusing in Laser Plasmas
7. Liquid-Crystal Laser-Blocking Filters
8. Sub-Micron X-Ray Lithography Using UV-Laser-Produced Plasma as a Source
9. NLUF News
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Review 14 (Jan-March 1983)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Harmonic Radiation from IR- and UV-Laser Plasmas
4. Advances in the Theory of the Two-Plasmon Decay Instability in and Inhomogeneous Plasma
5. Broadband Spectrally Resolving X-Ray Instrumentation
6. X-Ray Crystal Devices: Diagnostic Developments
7. A Facility for Time-Resolved Low-Angle X-Ray Diffraction Studies
8. Defects and Damage in Thin Films
9. Development of Metal-Doped Polymer Ablation Materials
10. Real-Time Interactive Spectroscopy
11. NLUF News
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Review 13 (Oct-Dec 1982)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Characterization of Irradiation Uniformity on Spherical Targets
4. Thermal Transport Measurements on OMEGA
5. High-Resolution Harmonic Photography on OMEGA
6. Continuum X-Ray Spectra from UV- and IR-Laser-Produced Plasmas
7. Monolithic Cell for Frequency Conversion
8. Rotational-Shearing Interferometry for Improved Target Characterization
9. Progress Toward Tetrahertz Electronics
10. NLUF News
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Review 12 (July-Sept 1982)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Uniformity Requirements for Direct-Drive Laser Fusion
4. 24-Beam Implosion of Large-Aspect-Ratio Ar-DT Targets
5. Induced Stress Birefringence in the Nearly Athermal Glass LHG-8
6. Inertial Fusion Target Mounting-Methods: New Fabrication Procedures Reduce the Mounting Support Perturbation
7. Magnetron Sputtering of ICF Target Pusher Layers
8. NLUF News
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Review 11 (April-June 1982)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Convective-Stimulated Raman-Scattering Instability in UV-Laser Plasmas
4. Fabrication of Large-Aspect-Ratio, Plastic-Coated, Metal-Shell Targets
5. Laser Fusion Target Production: Developments in Drill, Fill, and Plug
6. Applications of the Jitter-Free Signal-Averaging Streak Camera
7. Subpicosecond Electrical Sampling
8. High-Repitition-Rate Amplification of Subpicosecond Pulses
9. NLUF News
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Review 10 (Jan-March 1982)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Anisotropic Stress around Defects in Thin Films
4. Irradiation Uniformity Experiments on OMEGA
5. Thermal Smoothing of Irradiation Nonuniformities in Laser-Driven Fusion
6. Biased Sputtering of Target Pusher Layers
7. An Interactive Information Management Data Base for Fusion Target Fabrication
8. NLUF News
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Review 9 (Oct-Dec 1981)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facility Report
3. Photoacoustic Absorption Spectroscopy for Defect Analysis in Thin Films
4. Initial Long-Pulse Experiments on OMEGA
5. Filimentation of Laser Light in Flowing Plasmas
6. Improvements in Nonconcentricity Measurement of Target Shells
7. Progress in Ablation Layer Fabrication
8. Picosecond Electron Diffraction
9. Generation of Pulses Shorter than 70 fsec with a Synchronously Pumped CW Dye Laser
10. NLUF News
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Review 8 (July-Sept 1981)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. OMEGA Facilities Report
3. Exploding Pusher Experiments on OMEGA
4. Capillary Gas Filling of Laser Fusion Targets
5. Kinetic X-Ray Diffraction of Purple Membrane
6. NLUF News
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Review 7 (April-June 1981)
1. GDL Facility Report
2. Laser Damage Testing of Optical Coatings at 351 nm
3. Beam Uniformity Measurements on the OMEGA Laser
4. Initial Experiments on OMEGA
5. Stimulated Backstcatter Measurements in the Laser Matter Interaction Experiments
6. Studies of Thermal Electron Transport Inhibition in Steep Temperature Gradients
7. Zone Plate Fabrication Developments
8. Target Pusher Layer Fabrication Developments
9. NLUF News
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Review 6 (Jan-March 1981)
1. OMEGA Facility Report
2. Liquid Crystal Devices for High Powered Lasers- Part 2: Waveplates
3. Active-Passive Mode-Locked Oscillator Generating Nanosecond Pulses
4. GDL Facility Report
5. High X-Ray Conversion Efficiency With Target Irradiation by a Frequency Tripled Nd:Glass Laser
6. Filamentation of Short Wavelength Laser Beams in Plasmas
7. NLUF News
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Review 5 (Sept-Dec 1980)
1. OMEGA Facility Report
2. GDL Facility Report
3. Liquid Crystal Devices for High Power Lasers- Part 1: Optical Isolators
4. Ultra Violet Experiments
5. Nonlinear Evolution of Ablation Driven Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
6. Enhanced Reflectivity Due to Pondermotive Rippling
7. Consolidation of Target Group at LLE
8. Zone Plate Fabrication
9. A New Picosecond Pulse Source
10. NLUF News
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Review 4 (June-Aug 1980)
1. OMEGA Activation
2. OMEGA Beam Propagation
3. Uniformity of Illumination Studies for OMEGA
4. Observation of Brillouin Sidescatter in Laser-Produced Plasma
5. Progress in Radiationally Cooled Target Experiments
6. Calculations of the Wavelength Dependence of Absorption
7. A Simple Jitter-Free Picosecond Streak Camera
8. Picosecond Microwave Pulse-Generation
9. NLUF News
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Review 3 (March-May 1980)
1. Laser Wavelength Conversion Program at LLE
2. Tests of Double Pass Geometry Using Active Mirrors
3. A Direct Measurement of Fuel rR
4. Advances in Target Characterization Computerized Methods for Laser Fusion Target Analysis
5. Application of Nanosecond X-Ray Diffraction Techniques to Bacteriorhodopsin
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Review 2 (Dec-Feb 1980)
1. OMEGA Laser System
2. OMEGA Laser System Performance Test
3. Glass Development Laser (GDL)
4. Laser Wavelength Conversion Program at LLE
5. Laser Plasma Interaction Experiments
6. Intermediate Density Experiments on ZETA
7. High-Density Effects on Thermonuclear Ignition for Inertially Confined Fusion
8. Electro-Optic Prepulse Suppression at LLE
9. Picosecond Switching of a Multi-Kilovolt DC Bias with Laser Activated Silicon at Low Temperature
10. NLUF News
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Review 1 (Sept-Nov 1979)
1. ZETA Laser System
2. OMEGA Laser System
3. Glass Development Laser (GDL)
4. Exploding Pusher Experiments on ZETA
5. Intermediate Density Experiments on ZETA: DT Fill
6. Intermediate Density Experiments on ZETA: Ar Fill
7. Diagnostic Development: Alpha Particle Imaging
8. A Drill and Plug Technique for Filling Laser Fusion Targets
9. Self-Consistent, Non-Destructive Measurement of Tritium Content and Wall Thickness of Glass Microballoon Laser Fusion Targets
10. Improvements in Parylene Coating of Fusion Targets by Molecular Structure Changes
11. NLUF News
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