Quick Shot
NIF Preamplifier Module Update
June 04, 2012
Since its introduction in the 21 May 2008 Quick Shot, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) preamplifier module (PAM), shown here installed in the OMEGA EP Sources Bay, has been used to test Multi-FM 1-D smoothing by spectral dispersion (SSD), a beam-smoothing technique that will be implemented on the NIF. At the PAM is Laser Sources Engineer Albert Consentino.