FY2002 Progress Summary Program Plan, Statement of Work and Deliverables for Development of High Average Power Diode-Pumped Solid State Lasers, and Complementary Technologies, for Applications in Energy and Defense

Bayramian, A ; Bibeau, C ; Beach, R ; Behrendt, B ; Ebbers, C ; Latkowski, J ; Meier, W ; Payne, S ; Perkins, J ; Schaffers, K ; Skulina, K ; Ditmire, T ; Kelly, J ; Waxer, L ; Rudi, P ; Randles, M ; Witter, D ; Meissner, H ; Merissner, O

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Laser Targets;    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;    Krypton Fluorides;    70 Plasma Physics And Fusion Technology;    Economics;   

DOI  :  10.2172/15013439
RP-ID  :  UCRL-ID-146643
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  15013439

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【 摘 要 】

The High Average Power Laser Program (HAPL) is a multi-institutional, coordinated effort to develop a high-energy, repetitively pulsed laser system for Inertial Fusion Energy and other DOE and DOD applications. This program is building a laser-fusion energy base to complement the laser-fusion science developed by DOE Defense programs over the past 25 years. The primary institutions responsible for overseeing and coordinating the research activities are the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and LLNL. The current LLNL proposal is a companion proposal to that submitted by NRL, for which the driver development element is focused on the krypton fluoride excimer laser option. Aside from the driver development aspect, the NRL and LLNL companion proposals pursue complementary activities with the associated rep-rated laser technologies relating to target fabrication, target injection, final optics, fusion chamber, materials and power plant economics. This report requests continued funding in FY02 to support LLNL in its program to build a 1kW, 100J, diode-pumped, crystalline laser. In addition, research in high gain laser target design, fusion chamber issues and survivability of the final optic element will be pursued. These technologies are crucial to the feasibility of inertial fusion energy power plants and also have relevance in rep-rated stewardship experiments.