Open AccessLLE Review quarterly report, January--March 1995. Volume 62
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/93549
Subject(s) - implosion , national ignition facility , inertial confinement fusion , smoothing , physics , laser , optics , shadowgraph , acceleration , ignition system , nuclear engineering , computer science , plasma , nuclear physics , engineering , classical mechanics , computer vision , thermodynamics
This volume of the LLE review, covering the period of January-March 1995, contains articles on the evaluation of the mechanism for laser damage in OMEGA UV multilayer coatings using a combination of conventional laser-damage characterization methods and atomic force microscopy; a dual-amplitude, fiber-coupled waveguide integrated-optic modulation device for generating temporally shaped optical pulses in OMEGA-, a proposal for modifying the indirect-drive irradiation geometry of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to provide the additional flexibility for performing direct-drive experiments; direct measurements of terminal-level lifetime in several different Nd:YLF laser media; an overview of the materials science issues, basic mechanisms, and potential device applications for light-emitting porous silicon; and a study of the time-dependent reflection and surface temperatures for laser-irradiated dental hard tissue at two CO{sub 2} laser wavelengths