LLE Review 84
Highlights
This volume of the LLE Review, covering the period from April to June 2000, includes articles on direct-drive experiments performed with the enhanced beam uniformity now available on the OMEGA laser system (1-THz SSD with polarization smoothing). The feature article (cover and p. 181) concerns calculated performance of directly driven capsules on the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
Additional research highlights reported in this issue include:
- an experimental study of the effect of beam smoothing and pulse shape on imprinting
- an experimental study of direct-drive implosions of gas-fusion-fuel-filled capsules on OMEGA performed with 1-THz SSD, polarization smoothing, and high-quality power balance
- a study of secondary-neutron-yield measurement using current-mode detectors, and
- a description of a technique for measuring positional variations in target areal density using filtered x-ray framing cameras.
- Optical and Plasma Smoothing of Laser Imprinting in Targets Driven by Lasers with SSD Bandwidths up to 1 THz
- Analysis of a Direct-Drive Ignition Capsule Designed for the National Ignition Facility
- Core Performance and Mix in Direct-Drive Spherical Implosions with High Uniformity
- Secondary-Neutron-Yield Measurements by Current-Mode Detectors
- Fourier-Space Image Processing for Spherical Experiments on OMEGA
- LLE’s Summer High School Research Program
- FY00 Laser Facility Report
- National Laser Users’ Facility News
- Publications and Conference Presentations