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Paper Abstract
Design optimization of the 1 .8 MJ, 500 TW National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser has proceeded with the use of a suite of new computational models. Cost-effectiveness of alternative fundamental architectures was considered using CHAINOP. A very fast, lumped-element energetics code, CHA1NOP includes an extensive cost database, a runtime choice of optimization algorithm, and a set of heuristic rules for diffraction and nonlinear effects and for operational constraints. Its ability to flexibly consider many alternative configurations at a few seconds per chain made it the ideal "first-cut" tool for narrowing the investigation to the switched, multi-pass cavity architecture that was chosen.
Paper Details
Date Published: 8 December 1997
PDF: 14 pages
Proc. SPIE 3047, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion: Second Annual International Conference, (8 December 1997); doi: 10.1117/12.294341
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3047:
Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion: Second Annual International Conference
Michel L. Andre, Editor(s)
PDF: 14 pages
Proc. SPIE 3047, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion: Second Annual International Conference, (8 December 1997); doi: 10.1117/12.294341
Show Author Affiliations
Richard A. Sacks, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
W. H. Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Mark A. Henesian, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Charles D. Orth, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
W. H. Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Mark A. Henesian, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Charles D. Orth, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Scott W. Haney, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
John B. Trenholme, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Jerome M. Auerbach, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Janice K. Lawson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
John B. Trenholme, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Jerome M. Auerbach, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Janice K. Lawson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3047:
Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion: Second Annual International Conference
Michel L. Andre, Editor(s)
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