Trident: a versatile high-power Nd:glass laser facility for inertial confinement fusion experiments
- 20 July 1995
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 34 (21), 4274-4283
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.34.004274
Abstract
The Trident Nd:glass laser system operates as an experimental facility supporting the national Inertial Confinement Fusion program at Los Alamos. The laser has two identical main beam lines with 14-cm-disk final amplifiers. The beams are frequency doubled, expanded to 19.2 cm, and focused on target with a variety of focusing optics. A third beam with 10-cm disk final amplifiers is also frequency doubled and used as a target-shooting or diagnostic beam simultaneously with the other two beams.Keywords
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