Cleanliness improvements of National Ignition Facility amplifiers as compared to previous large-scale lasers

John Honig

doi:10.1117/1.1815320

1 December 2004 Cleanliness improvements of National Ignition Facility amplifiers as compared to previous large-scale lasers

John Honig

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, Issue 12, (December 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1815320

Abstract

Prior to the recent commissioning of the first National Ignition Facility (NIF) beamline, full-scale laser-amplifier-glass cleanliness experiments are performed. Aerosol measurements and obscuration data acquired using a modified flatbed scanner compare favorably to historical large-scale lasers and indicate that NIF is the cleanest large-scale laser built to date.

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John Honig "Cleanliness improvements of National Ignition Facility amplifiers as compared to previous large-scale lasers," Optical Engineering 43(12), (1 December 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1815320

Published: 1 December 2004

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