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- 100 kJ, 20 ps to 1 ns, 120 TW
- 10 beams of 74 cm diameter
- 1017 W cm-2
- 527 nm, 351 nm (large KDP crystals)
- Dismantled in 1999
- Nd:glass
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- Diagram
(from Experiment on NOVA Sept 1997 Science and Technology Review)
see also
from How nova really works
- Amplifiers
(from photo archive)
- NOVA Tour
- User guide
- 10 meter diameter target chamber (with two technicians)
(from photo archive)
- A technician inside target chamber, designed to hold a vacuum for much of its working life span.
(from photo archive)
- Target chamber with deuterium laser-shock and compression experiment
(from March 1999 Science and Technology Review)
- chamber
(from Sept 1998 Science and Technology Review)
- inside target chamber and
1.6 mm target explodes (1 ns, 20 kJ, 351 nm). Creates
x-ray ablation and target debris (beam dump damage is in the shape of the target shadow).
(from University of California, Berkeley, ICF)
- Exploding target (notice again, target shaped shadow on beam dump)
(from APS Centennial Meeting)
- Photo of GMXI (upper right), GXI-3 (bottom), FABSI (middle left)
from LANL P-24 Diagnostics and Optical Science Team
- TION (Ion Temperature Diagnostic) (dead link)
and detector configuration on NOVA
from diagnostics page
R. E. Chrien,R.E., Harris,D.B., Cable,M.D., Nelson,M.B., Simmons,D.F., Holmberg,D.L.: 1993, ICF Quarterly, 3 (2), 97.
Neutron time-of-flight ion temperature diagnostic for Nova. (UCRL-LR-105821-93-2)
- LAPC Los Alamos Pinhole Camera
from diagnostics page
(dead link?) Oertel, J.A., Peterson, C.G. : 1997, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 68, 786.
Los Alamos pinhole camera (LAPC): A new flexible x-ray pinhole camera
- GXI-2 Gated X-ray Imager 2
from diagnostics page (dead link?)
- GXI-3 (Gated X-ray Imager 3)
from diagnostics page (dead link?)
- FABSI Full Aperture Backscatter Station with Imaging
from diagnostics page (dead link?)
- How to Get and Display NOVA 8XCCD Camera Data
- How to obtain Monitor/Fiducial traces from NOVA Sims using the PROCSIM routine in IDL to look at the TDS
- Kilkenny, J.D.: 1992, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 63, No. 10. "Recent Diagnostic Developments at Nova" - description of the complete Nova diagnostic suite
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Four articles in Physical Review Letters, 24 October 1994 about NOVA
- Da Silva, L.B. et al: 1992, Phys. Rev. Lett., 20 July.
Nature, 15 October 1992. NOVA laser measures photoabsorption of iron, heated by x rays to a temperature of 2.5 ´ 105 K
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