1999 Annual Report
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Laser-Plasma Interactions in Long-Scale-Length Plasmas Under Direct-Drive National Ignition Facility Conditions
- Irradiation Uniformity for High-Compression Laser-Fusion Experiments
- A Novel Charged-Particle Diagnostic for rR in Compressed ICF Targets
- Arresting UV-Laser Damage in Fused Silica
- Theory of the Ablative Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability
- Reverse Intersystem Crossing from a Triplet State of Rose Bengal Populated by Sequential 532-nm plus 1064-nm Laser Excitation
- Picosecond Response of Optically Driven Y-Ba-Cu-O Microbridge and Josephson-Junction Integrated Structures
- High-Frequency Bulk Phase Modulator for Broadband Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion on OMEGA
- Angular Spectrum Representation of Pulsed Laser Beams with Two-Dimensional Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
- Hollow-Shell Implosion Studies on the 60-Beam, UV OMEGA Laser System
- Simultaneous Measurements of Fuel Areal Density Shell Areal Density, and Fuel Temperature in D3 He-Filled Imploding Capsules
- The Design of Optical Pulse Shapes with an Aperture-Coupled-Stripline Pulse-Shaping System
- Measurement Technique for Characterization of Rapidly Time- and Frequency-Varying Electronic Devices
- Damage to Fused-Silica, Spatial-Filter Lenses on the OMEGA Laser System
- Direct-Drive Target Designs for the National Ignition Facility
- Numerical Investigation of Characterization of Thick Cryogenic-Fuel Layers Using Convergent Beam Interferometry
- Studies of Target Implosion Using K-Shell Absorption Spectroscopy of an Embedded Titanium Layer
- Experimental Investigation of Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
- Nonlinear Evolution of Broad-Bandwidth, Laser-Imprinted Nonuniformities in Planar Targets Accelerated by 351-nm Laser Light
- Uniaxial/Biaxial Stress Paradox in Optical-Materials Hardening
- Observation of Electron Trapping in an Intense Laser Beam
- Modeling Laser Imprint for Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
- Stability of Self-Focused Filaments in Laser-Produced Plasmas
- Broadband Beam Smoothing on OMEGA with Two-Dimensional Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion
- The Effect of Pulse Shape on Laser Imprinting and Beam Smoothing
- The Output Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Nd:YLF Regenerative Amplifier
- Development of New Magnetorheological Fluids for Polishing CaF2and KDP
- LLE’s Summer High School Research Program
- FY99 Laser Facility Report
- National Laser Users Facility News
- Publications and Conference Presentations