How NIF Works | National Ignition Facility & Photon Science
WEBThis video illustrates the path of a NIF shot from the generation of the initial laser pulse in the Master Oscillator Room to the implosion of the target and release of energy in the Target Chamber.
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WEBNIF beams start out as invisible infrared light and then pass through special optics that convert them to visible green light and then to invisible, high-energy ultraviolet light for optimum interaction with the target.
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WEBThe National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain.
4. Laser System - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
WEBThis section provides an overview of the laser performance and pulse shaping capabilities for experiments on the NIF laser. For more information on laser performance, see The National Ignition Facility Laser Performance Status1 by Haynam et al.
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WEBNIF is the world’s most precise and reproducible laser system. It precisely guides, amplifies, reflects, and focuses 192 powerful laser beams into a target about the size of a pencil eraser in a few billionths of a second, delivering more than 2 million joules of ultraviolet energy and 500 trillion watts of peak power.
4.3. Laser Wavelength - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
WEBLaser Wavelength. NIF’s front end consists of four individually tunable oscillators that are mapped to different cones. Each of the inner 23.5º, 30º, 44.5º, and 50º quads receive independent wavelengths, with a total of four potentially different wavelengths.
WEBLaser Diagnostics provide measurements of beam spatial profile, pulse energy, and temporal pulse shape that are required to monitor the health of the laser system
Schematic of the NIF laser system. | Download Scientific Diagram
WEBA more complete description of NIF can be found online at: The NIF laser beams are directed toward the center of a 5-m-radius target chamber where they are made incident on several different...
Schematic diagram of an individual NIF laser beamline (192 …
WEBThis paper describes the status of the stadium-sized National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest laser system and first operational multi-megajoule laser.
WEBFigure 1: NIF building layout. A breakthrough was achieved in December 2022, when an experiment at NIF produced 3.15 MJ of fusion energy, more than the laser energy on the target of 2.05 MJ [2], thus achieving the fusion ignition. The achievement was broadly covered by scientific and news media, Fig. 2.
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