Department of Energy (DOE) Monthly Reports
2018
Report | Topic |
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January 2018 | Replacement of Cryogenic Target System Linear Motor |
February 2018 | High-Performance Computing of High-Energy-Density Plasmas at LLE |
March 2018 | OMEGA Power-Balance Improvements |
April 2018 | Observation of Solid Ramp-Compressed Sodium Above 300 GPa |
May 2018 | Backlighter-Intensity Improvements for Radiography of Cryogenic Implosions |
June 2018 | Toward a Broadband Reflectivity Diagnostic on OMEGA EP |
July 2018 | High-Performance OMEGA Cryogenic Implosions |
August 2018 | Summer High School Research Program |
September 2018 | A New Wavelength-Tunable Beam for Laser–Plasma Interaction Experiments |
October 2018 | Laser–Plasma Interaction Experiments on OMEGA EP |
November 2018 | Laser–Plasma Interaction Experiments on OMEGA EP |
December 2018 | Laser–Plasma Interaction Experiments on OMEGA EP |
2017
Report | Topic |
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January 2017 | X-Ray Thomson Scattering from Strong Shocks in Carbon Foams |
February 2017 | Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of OMEGA Implosions |
March 2017 | In-Situ Measurement of Direct-Drive Target Illumination Uniformity |
April 2017 | Cross-Beam-Energy Transfer Diagnostic |
May 2017 | Effects of a Fill Tube on the Performance of OMEGA Direct-Drive DT Cryogenic Implosions |
June 2017 | Highest-Pressure Solid Aluminum X-Ray Diffraction Recorded on OMEGA EP |
July 2017 | Cryogenic Implosion Performance |
August 2017 | High-Resolution X-Ray Line-Shape Spectroscopy of Hot Dense Matter |
September 2017 | The Single-Line-of-Sight, Time-Resolved X-Ray Imager Diagnostic Records the Core Emission from Cryogenic Implosions |
October 2017 | Finite Atwood-Number Effects on Deceleration-Phase Instability in Direct-Drive Implosions of Gas-Filled Capsules |
November 2017 | OMEGA Nuclear Science Experiments |
December 2017 | The Cryogenic Equipment for Fielding Fill-Tube Targets |
2016
Report | Topic |
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January 2016 | Polarization Dependence of a Cross-Beam Energy Transfer |
February 2016 | OMEGA Graxicon |
March 2016 | High-Resolution, Ultrafast Streaked X-Ray Spectrometer |
April 2016 | Observation of Solid–Solid Phase Transitions in Ramp-Compressed Aluminum |
May 2016 | X-Ray Backlighting of Cryogenic Capsule Implosions |
June 2016 | Cross-Beam Energy Transfer Modeling
Dr. Michael Rosenberg awarded the American Physical Society 2016 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award |
July 2016 | Shocked Foams on OMEGA EP |
August 2016 | Summer High School Research Program |
September 2016 | Direct-Drive Campaign at the National Ignition Facility |
October 2016 | Hot-Spot Mix in Direct-Drive DT Cryogenic Implosions |
November 2016 | Low-Mode Nonuniformity Measurement and Correction in Direct-Drive Implosions |
December 2016 | Cryogenic 1-D Implosion Campaign |
2015
Report | Topic |
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January 2015 | Mass-Ablation-Rate Measurements in Polar-Direct-Drive Implosions on OMEGA |
February 2015 | P11-NTD KBFRAMED |
March 2015 | LLE/NROTC Intern Program KBFRAMED Magnification and Resolution |
April 2015 | Implosions on OMEGA Exceed 50-Gbar Hot-Spot Pressures |
May 2015 | FY16 Laboratory Basic Science Experiments Approved |
June 2015 | Wavelength Detuning for Cross-Beam Energy Transfer Mitigation in Polar-Direct-Drive Ignition |
July 2015 | Laser-Plasma Simulation Environment |
August 2015 | Measuring Neutron-Induced d-Breakup Reactions Using High-Yield DT Implosions on OMEGA |
September 2015 | OMEGA Zooming Phase Plate |
October 2015 | Reduction of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer for Direct-Drive, Layered Deuterium–Tritium Implosions on OMEGA |
November 2015 | Development of Laser-Driven MagLIF on OMEGA |
December 2015 | Joint SNL–LLE Magnetized Linear Inertial Fusion Project |
2014
Report | Topic |
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January 2014 | Strong Shock Generation for Shock-Ignition Inertial Fusion and Donald and Linda Winter LLE/NROTC Intern Program |
February 2014 | “Instantaneous” Material Heating and Release |
March 2014 | Magnetized Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions on OMEGA |
April 2014 | Omega Laser Facility Users Group (OLUG) Workshop |
May 2014 | National Ignition Facility (NIF) X-Ray Spectrometer (NXS) |
June 2014 | X-Ray–Backlit, Polar-Drive Implosions on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) |
July 2014 | Gas Cherenkov Detector 3 |
August 2014 | OMEGA High-Resolution Velocimeter |
September 2014 | Spherical Strong-Shock Generation for Shock-Ignition Inertial Fusion |
October 2014 | Impact of First-Principles Properties of Deuterium–Tritium on Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Designs |
November 2014 | NIF Polar-Direct-Drive Campaign |
December 2014 | ShockSoundSpeed EP Experiment |
2013
Report | Topic |
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January 2013 | OMEGA EP Fourth-Harmonic Probe Activation |
February | OMEGA Cryogenic DT Implosion Performance |
March 2013 | Experimental Comparison of Hydrodynamic Efficiencies for Be, C, and CH Ablators |
April 2013 | Improving Laser-Damage Performance of UV Coatings |
May 2013 | Electron–Positron Pair Jet |
June 2013 | Implementation of a New Neutron Temporal Diagnostic |
July 2013 | Soft X-Ray Backlighting of Cryogenic Implosions Using a Narrow-Bandwidth Crystal Imaging System |
August 2013 | Polar-Drive Experiments with Shimmed Shells |
September 2013 | Controlled Symmetry Variation in Polar-Drive Experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) |
October 2013 | Measurements of the Dependence of the Two-Plasmon–Decay Instability on the Plasma Scale Length |
November 2013 | Installation of the OMEGA Arbitrary Waveform Generator Pulse-Shaping System |
December 2013 | Cryogenic DT Implosions with a Laser-Shinethrough Barrier |
2012
Report | Topic |
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January 2012 | Multifrequency-Modulated Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion |
February 2012 | Measurement of Fast-Electron Preheat |
March 2012 | Polar-Drive Experiments with Shimmed Shells |
April 2012 | Improved Cryogenic-DT Implosion Performance |
May 2012 | OMEGA EP Two-Plasmon-Decay Experiments |
June 2012 | Magnetic-Field Generation by Rayleigh–Taylor Instability |
July 2012 | Thomson-Scattering Advancements |
August 2012 | Progress in Cryogenic Target Implosions |
September 2012 | Polar-Drive Experiments with Shimmed Shells |
October 2012 | 2-D Modeling of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer (CBET) in Direct-Drive Implosions |
November 2012 | Fast-Electron Control with a Magnetic Field in Hohlraums |
December 2012 | NIF Polar-Drive–Ignition Design |
2011
Report | Topic |
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January 2011 | Thomson-Scattering from Direct-Drive Targets |
February 2011 | Mitigating Crossed-Beam Energy Transfer in Implosion Targets |
March 2011 | Polar-Drive Ignition Target Design |
April 2011 | Intensity Scan of Warm Plastic-Shell Implosions on OMEGA
Laboratory Basic Science Proposal Solicitation |
May 2011 | Improved Cryogenic-DT Target Performance |
June 2011 | Mitigation of Laser Imprinting in Spherical Implosions by High-Z Doping |
July 2011 | Optimization of Neutron Yield by Balancing the Reduction of CBET with Increased Nonuniformities |
August 2011 | Distributed Phase Plate Design for Polar-Drive Configuration on the NIF |
September 2011 | Plasma Nuclear Science at the Omega Laser Facility |
October 2011 | X-Ray Framing-Camera Characterization |
November 2011 | Streaked Optical Pyrometer Upgrade |
December 2011 | Diagnostic Timing Design for NIF |
2010
Report | Topic |
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January 2010 | X-Ray Thomson Scattering from Spherically Imploded ICF Ablators |
February2010 | Proton Radiography Measurements of Target Charging
NIF Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer |
March 2010 | NIF Polar-Driven, Direct-Drive Activation Shot Tests |
April 2010 | Three-Color-Cycle SSD Installation |
May 2010 | Basic Science Research at LLE
OMEGA Laser Users Group Science Article on Proton Radiography |
June 2010 | Polar DIM Imager for the NIF |
July 2010 | OMEGA Cryogenic Target Development
Visit by Dr. Steven Koonin |
August 2010 | Spherical Crystal-Imager Diagnostic
NLUF Proposals Approved for FY11 and FY12 |
September 2010 | First NIF Polar-Drive Deuterium–Tritium (DT) Implosions |
October 2010 | Measuring Multiple Spherically Converging Shocks in Liquid-Deuterium Targets |
November 2010 | Validation of Simulations of Cryogenic Target Implosions |
December 2010 | Lab-on-a-Chip ICF Target Manufacturing |
2009
Report | Topic |
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January 2009 | High-Energy X-Ray Radiography |
February 2009 | Fast-Electron Source Characterization |
March 2009 | Programmable Spatial-Light Modulator |
April 2009 | Positron Production Experiment
OMEGA Laser Users Group (OLUG) Workshop |
May 2009 | Multiple-Shock Timing |
June 2009 | OMEGA EP VISAR Diagnostic
Liquid-Scintillator nTOF Detector |
July 2009 | NIF Polar-Driven, Direct-Drive Activation Shot Tests |
August 2009 | Cryogenic-DT Target Implosions |
September 2009 | High-Energy Electron-Conversion Efficiency Measurement with High-Energy (2.1 kJ), Short Pulse (10 to 12 ps)
OMEGA EP Temporal Contrast Measurement |
October 2009 | High-Density Cryogenic Implosions
OMEGA EP Backlighter Development |
November 2009 | Hot-Spot X-Ray Spectrometer for the NIF
NIF Polar-Drive Implosions |
December 2009 | NIF 4ω Fiducial Laser |
2008
Report | Topic |
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January 2008 | Diagnosing Cryogenic DT Implosions at OMEGA Using Charged-Particle Spectrometry |
February 2008 | First Target Shots on OMEGA EP
Proton Radiography of ICF Implosions |
March 2008 | Multiple Shock Timing in Convergent Geometry |
April 2008 | OMEGA EP Project Completion |
May 2008 | NIF PAM for OMEGA EP |
June 2008 | Calibration of the NIF Neutron Time-of-Flight (nTOF) Detectors |
July 2008 | Multi-Shock Velocity Measurements |
August 2008 | Hard X-Ray Bremsstrahlung Measurements |
September 2008 | Polar-Drive Experiments |
October 2008 | Integrated Simulations of Electron Transport and Ignition for Fast-Ignition Targets |
November 2008 | DT Implosions Meet Requirements for Scattered Neutron Spectroscopy |
December 2008 | First Areal Density Measurement Based on Neutron Scattering in Compressed DT-Cryogenic Fuel |
2007
Report | Topic |
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January 2007 | Silicon Shinethrough Barriers
Intel Science Talent Search |
February 2007 | Laser-to-X-Ray Coupling for Direct-Drive ICF
Cryogenic Target Experiments |
March 2007 | Polar-Direct-Drive Ignition Design
Indirect-Drive Implosion Symmetry Campaign |
April 2007 | OMEGA Areal-Density Milestone |
May 2007 | High-Contrast Pulse Generation
OMEGA EP Use Planning Workshop II |
June 2007 | Diffractive Color Corrector for the OMEGA EP Laser |
July 2007 | Rapid Heating of Solid-Density Matter During High-Intensity-Laser Interactions |
August 2007 | Role of Preheat in the Stabilization of Rayleigh–Taylor Growth |
September 2007 | Doped-Ablator Implosions |
October 2007 | Experimental Studies of the Shock-Ignition ICF Concept |
November 2007 | Shock-Timing Validation |
December 2007 | Cryogenic DT Target Research |
2006
Report | Topic |
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January 2006 | Electron Transport Modeling for Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments |
February 2006 | National Ignition Campaign Hohlraum Energetics Experiments |
March 2006 | Cryogenic DT Target Implosions
High-Contrast Pulse Shape Generator |
April 2006 | Active Shock Breakout (ASBO) Upgrade |
May 2006 | Absorption in OMEGA Implosion Experiments |
June 2006 | High-Resolution X-Ray Imaging (HRXI) |
July 2006 | OMEGA Cryogenic Targets |
August 2006 | National Ignition Campaign Hohlraum Energetics on OMEGA |
September 2006 | X-Ray Absorption Measurements of Areal Density in Cryogenic DT Implosions |
October 2006 | Areal-Density Analysis of OMEGA Implosions |
November 2006 | National Ignition Campaign Hohlraum Energetics Experiments on OMEGA |
December 2006 | K-Shell Spectroscopy of High-Intensity Laser–Solid Interactions |
2005
Report | Topic |
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January 2005 | EXAFS Measurement of Iron bcc-to-hcp Phase Transformation in Nanosecond-Laser Shocks |
February 2005 | Progress on Polar Direct Drive |
March 2005 | Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor Growth of 3-D Laser-Imprinted Modulations |
April 2005 | Absolute EOS Measurements |
May 2005 | Neutron Diagnostics Development |
June 2005 | Spectrally Resolved X-Ray Scattering Experiments |
July 2005 | Cryogenic D2 Layer Characterization |
August 2005 | Plasma Electrode Pockels Cell (PEPC) |
September 2005 | NLUF Proton Radiography Experiments |
October 2005 | Low-Adiabat Implosions |
November 2005 | OMEGEA EP Construction |
December 2005 | Fractionation of Fusion Fuel in ICF Capsules |
2004
Report | Topic |
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January 2004 | Fast-Ignition Target Design |
February 2004 | Polar-Direct-Drive Experiments |
March 2004 | OMEGA EP Front End |
April 2004 | Beam Imprinting |
May 2004 | Fast-Ignition, Cone-Target, Fuel-Assembly Experiments |
June 2004 | EXAFS Measurements of Laser-Shocked Vanadium and Titanium |
July 2004 | OMEGA EP Project Highlights |
August 2004 | Defense Programs Award of Excellence |
September 2004 | OMEGA Shot Record |
October 2004 | Physical Data Research Program (LLNL) Recognition |
November 2004 | Drive Uniformity Improvement
NIF Neutron Bang Time Detector (NBT) |
December 2004 | OMEGA Cryogenic Capsule Implosions |
2003
Report | Topic |
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January 2003 | LLE High School Student Research
NIF Recognition Award |
February 2003 | OMEGA EP Project |
March 2003 | Cryogenic Target Characterization
Thomson Scattering from Plasmons near the Landau Cutoff |
April 2003 | Proton Core Imaging Spectroscopy (PCIS)
Proton Temporal Diagnostic (PTD) |
May 2003 | OMEGA EP Prototype Amplifier |
June 2003 | Tiled Grating Pulse Compressor |
July 2003 | Shock-Timing Experiments |
August 2003 | Simulations of Shock Propagation in DT-Wetted CH Foams
OMEGA EP Building Construction |
September 2003 | Cryogenic Target Characterization |
October 2003 | Optimized Irradiation Uniformity |
November 2003 | Picket-Pulse Implosions |
December 2003 | Cryogenic Target Performance |
2002
Report | Topic |
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January 2002 | Ignition Model |
February 2002 | Indirect-Drive Ablator Shock Propagation |
March 2002 | OMEGA Cryogenic Target Experiments
Picket-Pulse Implosion Experiments |
April 20002 | Cryogenic Target Ice Layering
Modulated Shock Waves |
May 2002 | Cryogenic Target Fabrication
First Shaped-Pulse Cryogenic Target Implosion |
June 2002 | High-Performance, Direct-Drive Target Designs
Controlled Target Irradiation |
July 2002 | OMEGA 2ω Probe Activation
Measurement of Capsule-Areal-Density Evolution |
August 2002 | Offset Target Implosions
Determination of Imposed Core Temperature and Density Gradients |
September 2002 | Cryogenic Target Implosions
Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) |
October 2002 | Collapsing Radiative Shocks
New OMEGA Diode-Pumped Regenerative Amplifier |
November 2002 | Direct-Drive Fast-Ignition Research at LLE
2-D Performance of a Low-Adiabat Cryogenic Implosion |
December 2002 | Optimized Direct-Drive Illumination Uniformity
Deuterium Equation-of-State Experiments |
2001
Report | Topic |
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January 2001 | Shock-Related Structure in D-3He Proton Spectra
NIF 2-D SSD Preliminary Design |
February 2001 | Laser-Plasma Interaction Experiments |
March 2001 | Controlled-Prepulse Rayleigh-Taylor Experiments |
April 2001 | Smoothing Performance of Ultrafast Picket Fence Pulses on the NIF
Multibeam Streak Cameras |
May 2001 | Wetted-Foam NIF Direct-Drive Target Designs
Multibeam Interaction Experiments |
June 2001 | Shell Mix in Compressed Core of Spherical Implosions
Tertiary Neutron Diagnostic |
July 2001 | Cryogenic Target Characterization
Improved Capsule-Surface Roughness |
August 2001 | Cryogenic Target Implosions
Summer High School Student Research Program |
September 2001 | Time-Integrated UV Photographs of OMEGA Implosions |
October 2001 | Spectral Sculpting for IFE Lasers |
November 2001 | Power Balance and Implosion Symmetry
R&D 100 Award |
December 2001 | Comparisons of High-Resolution Neutron X-Ray Imaging
OMEGA Operations Summary |
2000
Report | Topic |
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January 2000 | High-Intensity Distributed Phase Plates
CCD-Based Diagnostics in High-Neutron Environments |
February 2000 | Inner-Shell-Mix Diagnostic
OMEGA Power Balance |
March 2000 | 1-THz SSD Bandwidth Measurements
Density Diagnostic for Cryogenic Target Implosions |
April 2000 | Determination of Preheat Due to Fast Electrons on OMEGA
Imprint Reduction with Shaped Pulses |
May 2000 | Power-Balance Diagnostics
Shock-Heating Measurements |
June 2000 | Charged-Particle Diagnostics
Neutron Imaging |
July 2000 | Cryogenic Target Implosion |
August 2000 | OMEGA Integrated Spherical Experiments (ISE) |
September 2000 | Laser–Plasma Interaction (LPI) Experiments |
October 2000 | Cryogenic Target Shots
IR1 Streak Camera |
November 2000 | SSP Material Properties Studies
LANL’s Double-Shell, Indirect-Drive Implosions |
December 2000 | Mix-Model Analysis of Direct-Drive Implosions
Characterization of Core Conditions |
1999
Report | Topic |
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January 1999 | Integrated Spherical Experiments (ISE)
Implosions of D-3He-Filled Capsules |
February 1999 | Plasma Physics
High-Bandwidth, Frequency-Tripling Cell Installation Cryogenic Fuel Target Development |
March 1999 | NIF Direct-Drive Target Designs
LLE/NRL Collaboration Experiments |
April 1999 | Cryogenic Target-handling System
Gratings for 2-D SSD |
May 1999 | SSD Smoothing Rate
DMX Installed on OMEGA |
June 1999 | Ion Temperature Measurements
Shell Integrity Imaging |
July 1999 | 2-D ORCHID Simulation
Secondary Neutron Spectrum Measurements |
August 1999 | OMEGA Prepulse Control Contrast
Diode-Pumped Multipass Preamplifier |
September 1999 | Laser Prepulse Contrast
NLUF Experiments |
October 1999 | Cryogenic Target-Handling System |
November 1999 | Comparison of Measured Cold-Shell rho delta r Modulation with ORCHID 2-D Simulations
Laser Source |
December 1999 | 1-THz, 2-D SSD on OMEGA
Two-Plasmon-Decay Instability |
1998
Report | Topic |
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January 1998 | Charged-Particle Spectrometer
National Ignition Facility Optics |
February 1998 | X-ray Diagnostics
Laser-Plasma Interactions |
March 1998 | Diode-Pumped Regenerative Amplifier |
April 1998 | Laser Imprinting
Indirect-Drive Experiments NLUF Steering Committee Activities |
May 1998 | Charged-Particle Spectrometer
New Diode-Pumped Monomode Laser Spherical Burnthrough Experiments |
June 1998 | Laser Imprinting
X-ray Spectroscopy |
July 1998 | Charged Particle Spectrometers
Imprinting Experiments Direct-Drive Cylinder Implosions |
August 1998 | Cryogenic Target Fabrication
Interpreting Results from the Charged-Particle Spectrometer |
September 1998 | Integrated Spherical Implosion Experiments
High-Density Diagnostics Cryogenic Target System |
October 1998 | Distributed Plate Development
Pulse Shaping Two-Dimensional Smoothing by Spectral Dispersion (2-D SSD) |
November 1998 | Irradiation Uniformity
Control of Ablation Velocity with Shaped Pulses |
December 1998 | Neutron Diagnostics–MEDUSA
OMEGA Surrogate Cryogenic-Target Experiments Distributed Phase Plate Development |
1997
Report | Topic |
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July 1997 | Planar-Target Rayleigh–Taylor Experiments
Diagnostics Development–Imaging the Cold, Compressed Shell Diagnostics Development–Neutron Burn History and Bang Time High-Bandwidth 2-D SSD Tests on OMEGA New Diode-Pumped Master Oscillator for OMEGA |
August 1997 | Dynamic Stabilization of Cryogenic Capsules
Indirect-Drive ICF Campaign (ID3, ID4) Multiple-Beam UV Pulse Shape Measurements Planar Rayleigh–Taylor Experiments (SI/S2) |
September 1997 | Imprinting Experiments (S2)
Long-Scale-Length Plasma Generation (PP3) Distributed Phase Plates (DPP’s) Portable Diagnostics Meeting National Laser Users’ Facility |
October 1997 | High-Resolution X-Ray Microscope
S3 Experiments Pulse Shaping Computing at LLE |
November 1997 | Core Diagnostics
Pinhole-Array X-Ray Spectrograph Polyimide Capsules |
December 1997 | High-Bandwidth Frequency Tripling
Distributed-Phase-Plate Installation Distributed Phase Plate for Flat-Foil Experiments |