Tunable OMEGA P9 (TOP9) Platform

2019:

“Impact of the Langdon Effect on Crossed-Beam Energy Transfer” was published in the journal Nature Physics. The paper highlights research conducted on OMEGA utilizing the newly available OMEGA port 9 (TOP9) platform that will enhance the accuracy of implosion simulations by improving the predictive capability of cross-beam energy transfer (CBET) modeling.

TOP9, a wavelength-tunable OMEGA EP laser beam, was built to study CBET into well-characterized stationary plasmas. The TOP9 system will enable robust tests of integrated CBET hydrodynamic models and demonstrate CBET mitigation using wavelength shifting. The beamline can deliver up to 0.5 TW in pulses as long as 1 ns in duration or 0.1 TW for pulse widths up to 2.5 ns with a wavelength that is tunable from 350.2 to 353.4 nm.

D. Turnbull et al.,Nat. Phys.16, 1812020