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| ABC : Diagram of beam geometry and target chamber diagnostics |
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| ABC : Target chamber |
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| ALFA 2 : Outside target chamber - Harmonics experiment. From Univ. of Toronto images of high power lasers |
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| ALFA 2 : Target chamber port - Harmonics experiment - 1 micron. From Univ. of Toronto images of high power lasers |
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| ALFA 2 : Inside target chamber - Harmonics experiment. - 1 micron (closeup). From Univ. of Toronto images of high power lasers |
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| ASTRA : Target chamber diagram (side view). From target facilities |
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| ASTRA : Target chamber diagram (top view). From target facilities |
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| ASTRA : Phase I experiment (see also smaller JPG version of this image) |
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| ASTRA : Target area after first experiment, laser interaction with a pulsed beam of hydrogen ions (December 1998).
Photo shows groups from University College of London, lead by Dr Roy Newell and Queens’ University, Belfast, lead by Dr Ian Williams.
From First astra experiment |
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| GEKKO XII : Target chamber and fuel sphere.
From ICF Target design |
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| GEKKO XII : CPA grating chamber (Gekko MII). From MPU Group |
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| GEKKO XII : Close-up of exploding target. From RT Group |
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| GEKKO XII : Image of exploding target. From Measurement Technology Section |
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| ISKRA 4 : Target chamber.
From RFNC VNIIEF |
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| ISKRA 5 : Target chamber.
From RFNC VNIIEF |
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| JANUS : Target chamber.
From The Physics & Space Technology USP and Janus Lasers/TD> |
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| LUCA : Target chamber.
From Coulomb explosion of clusters in high intensity laser pulses |
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| LULI : Target chamber |
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| LULI : another view target chamber |
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| LULI : Pulse compressor |
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| LULI : X-Ray laser target area. From CNRS image
gallery |
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| LULI : Outside target chamber. From CNRS image
gallery |
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| LULI : Inside target chamber |
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| LULI : Inside target chamber, someone is reaching in through an open porthole. From Rapport d'Activité LULI 1997, (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 1998, NTIS: PB98-152515)
(this report contains details about the LULI TW laser) |
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| Lund Terawatt : Air breakdown at laser focal point.
From 1994 annual report |
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| NIF : Target chamber diagram |
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| NIF : Target chamber, another diagram
(from physics news) |
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| NIF : Diagram of target chamber (two configurations)
(see Aug 1999 Science and Technology Review) |
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| NIF : Completed target chamber
(from NIF) |
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| NIF : Target chamber, 190 holes, 11 cm thick aluminum alloy 5083-0, 10 meter 118,000 kilogram
(see Sep 1999 Science and Technology Review) |
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| NIKE : Final mirror and lens array direct laser beams onto target
(see also)
The Propagation Bay is a 155-ft long insulated room. The temperature throughout can be held
uniform to within a half degree Fahrenheit. Charcoal filters eliminate the UV absorbing gases. |
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| NOVA : 10 meter diameter target chamber (with two technicians)
(from photo archive) |
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| NOVA : A technician inside target chamber, designed to hold a vacuum for much of its working life span.
(from photo archive) |
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| NOVA : Target chamber with deuterium laser-shock and compression experiment
(from March 1999 Science and Technology Review) |
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| NOVA : chamber
(from Sept 1998 Science and Technology Review) |
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| NOVA : inside target chamber
(from University of California, Berkeley, ICF) |
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| NOVA : 1.6 mm target explodes (1 ns, 20 kJ, 351 nm)
(from University of California, Berkeley, ICF) |
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| NOVA : x-ray ablation and target debris (beam dump damage is in the shape of the target shadow)
(from University of California, Berkeley, ICF) |
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| NOVA : Exploding target (notice again, target shaped shadow on beam dump)
(from APS Centennial Meeting) |
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| OMEGA : Target chamber during shot.
From Graduate studies in High Energy-Desnity and Plasma Physics at the University of Rochester |
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| OMEGA : Target Chamber with 12 kJ laser pulse (see also Experiment : direct drive cylindrical explosion) |
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| OMEGA : Target bay (view from above) from June 1999 Science and Technology Review) |
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| PALS : Diagram of target chamber (from target facilities) |
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| PETAWATT : 74 cm CPA gold compressor gratings in a 3 ´ 11 m vacuum chamber |
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| PETAWATT : Outside CPA vacuum chamber Mike Perry (left), head of the project, and Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate and inventor of the laser |
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| SLAC T3 : Target chamber. Laser beam enters from top left, comes down pipes on right, collides with electron beam in stainless steel box.
Scattered electrons bend downwards, positrons bend upwards in string of magnets with purple ears.
Wolfram Ragg is adjusting ECAL detector. Theo Kotseroglou is in background on left. (see also
larger version, 1340 x 984 size=221,374 bytes)
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| T6 : Target chamber diagram. Thomson/Compton Experiment using an electron gun and TW laser (by K. Matsukado).
From Takahashi, T.: 1999, Activities in Japan, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, p.8 |
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| TITANIA : Target chamber - Gas Harmonics Experiment - Peter Norreys and Dave.
From Univ. of Toronto images of high power lasers
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| TITANIA : Another view of target chamber - Gas harmonics experiment- Steve and Dave.
From Univ. of Toronto images of high power lasers
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| Toronto Terawatt : Fred and Liang working on target chamber. From Univ. of Toronto images of high power lasers
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| Toronto Terawatt : Inside target chamber. From Univ. of Toronto images of high power lasers
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| TRIDENT : Target chamber outside |
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| TRIDENT : Target chamber inside |
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| TRIDENT : Target chamber during laser shot.
From The Inertial Confinement Approach to Fusion - Teresa's Thermonuclear Page
see smaller version from 'What is Fusion'
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U3 Laser :
- Hybrid vacuum-atmosphere pulse compressor : Adjustments in air
- ultraclean, small vacuum
- negligible group delay error
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Walker, B., Toth, C., Squier, J., Fittinghoff, D., Guo, T., Wilson, K., Barty, C. : 1999,
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, May 1999 (CLEO).
- 1998, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 4, 441
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| UHI 10 : Interaction chamber.
From CEA Photos, photo credit : A. Gonin/CEA |
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| UHI 10 : Interaction chamber with lid removed.
From CEA Photos, photo credit : A. Gonin/CEA
see also from
CEA |
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| UHI 10 : Compressor grating in target chamber.
From CEA Photos, photo credit : A. Gonin/CEA |
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| UHI 10 : Target holder.
From CEA Photos, photo credit : A. Gonin/CEA |
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| USP : Target chamber from The Physics & Space Technology USP and Janus Lasers |
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| VULCAN : Peter Hatton beside ultra-short pulse interaction chamber,
beam is 3 times diffraction limited, 10 micron focus spot
(from facilities at CLF) |
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| VULCAN : PhD student J Lin (Univ. of Essex) beside ultra-short pulse interaction chamber
200 TW, 1020 W cm-2, subpicosecond. |
