NIF Optical Materials and Fabrication Technologies: An Overview.

Campbell, J. H. ; Hawley-Fedder, R. ; Stolz, C. J. ; Menapace, J. A. ; Borden, M. R.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Optics;    Fabrication;    Lasers;    Apertures;    Coatings;   

RP-ID  :  DE200415007302

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The high-energy/high-power section of the NIF laser system contains 7360 meter-scale optics. Advanced optical materials and fabrication technologies needed to manufacture the NIF optics have been developed and put into production at key vendor sites. Production rates are up to 20 times faster and per-optic costs 5 times lower than could be achieved prior to the NIF. In addition, the optics manufactured for NIF are better than specification giving laser performance better than the design. A suite of custom metrology tools have been designed, built and installed at the vendor sites to verify compliance with NIF optical specifications. A brief description of the NIF optical wavefront specifications for the glass and crystal optics is presented.