Recent progress in the development of capsule targets for the National Ignition Facility

Robert Cook; Mitchell Anthamatten; James Paul Armstrong; Stephan A. Letts; Randall L. McEachern; Barry W. McQuillan; Masaru Takagi

doi:10.1117/12.537397

12 December 2003 Recent progress in the development of capsule targets for the National Ignition Facility

Robert Cook, Mitchell Anthamatten, James Paul Armstrong, Stephan A. Letts, Randall L. McEachern, Barry W. McQuillan, Masaru Takagi

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Proceedings Volume 5228, ECLIM 2002: 27th European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.537397
Event: ECLIM 2002: 27th European conference on Laser Interaction with Matter, 2002, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

The capsule targets for ignition experiments at the National Ignition Facility must meet very exacting requirements. Primary among them is an extremely high degree of symmetry at all length scales for the 2-mm-diameter 150-μm-walled capsule. At LLNL work is in progress to produce both polyimide and sputtered beryllium targets that meet these specifications. Both of these targets require a thin-walled spherical-shell plastic mandrel upon which the beryllium or polyimide ablator is deposited. In this paper we report on recent progress in developing NIF capsules that meet the demanding design requirements.

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Robert Cook, Mitchell Anthamatten, James Paul Armstrong, Stephan A. Letts, Randall L. McEachern, Barry W. McQuillan, and Masaru Takagi "Recent progress in the development of capsule targets for the National Ignition Facility", Proc. SPIE 5228, ECLIM 2002: 27th European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter, (12 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.537397

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