Multi-FM SSD Beam Smoothing on OMEGA EP

2012:

With the goal of designing a cryogenic polar-drive ignition platform compatible with existing National Iginition Facility (NIF) laser specifications, LLE has created, tested, and deployed a system of smoothing by spectral dispersion (SSD) using multiple-frequency modulations in a single dimension (Multi-FM 1-D) on OMEGA EP. The architecture of one of the four OMEGA EP beamlines is compatible with the NIF and has been adapted with the addition of a NIF preamplifier module (PAM). Proof-of-concept experiments, propagating light from the front end all the way to target interaction, have been successfully performed.

Shown here is the NIF preamplifier module with Research Engineer Albert Consentino