Abstract
The Trident laser facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has served for more than 20 years as an important tool in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and Material Dynamics research. An energy and power upgrade of the short-pulse beam line to 100J / 200 TW was made in 2007 and contrast improvements have been made continually since. The combination of this powerful new short-pulse beamline with the two flexible long pulse beamlines, and a total of three different target areas, makes Trident a highly flexible and versatile research tool for high energy density laboratory plasma (HEDLP) research. The newest “Dial-a-Contrast” (DaC) features are described, along with nominal performance of the laser at the presently available highest contrast.
Highlights
The Trident laser facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has served for more than 20 years as an important tool in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and Material Dynamics research
The single 10 cm C beamline is capable of producing up to 80–120 J depending on pulse length, and is configured with a vacuum grating compressor, enabling the use of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) [3] to produce pulses as short as 500–600 fs, yielding up to 200 TW of power
Experiments performed with pulses in the nanosecond range often use the second harmonic of the laser frequency (i.e. 527 nm), which can produce up to 250 J of light at 527 nm in each beam, in pulses of a few nanoseconds in lines A and B
Summary
The Trident laser facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has served for more than 20 years as an important tool in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and Material Dynamics research. An energy and power upgrade of the short-pulse beam line to 100J / 200 TW was made in 2007 and contrast improvements have been made continually since. The combination of this powerful new shortpulse beamline with the two flexible long pulse beamlines, and a total of three different target areas, makes Trident a highly flexible and versatile research tool for high energy density laboratory plasma (HEDLP) research.
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