National Ignition Facility.

Miller, G. H.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: National Ignition Facility;    Lasers;    Commissioning;    Cryogenics;    Harmonics;   

RP-ID  :  DE200415006533

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a stadium-sized facility containing a 192-beam, 1.8-Megajoule, 500-Terawatt, ultraviolet laser system together with a 10-meter diameter target chamber and room for 100 diagnostics. NIF is the world's largest and most energetic laser experimental system, providing a scientific center to study inertial confinement fusion and matter at extreme energy densities and pressures. NIF's energetic laser beams will compress fusion targets to conditions required for thermonuclear burn, liberating more energy than required to initiate the fusion reactions. Other NIF experiments will study physical processes at temperatures approaching 10(sup 8) K and 10 inches bar; conditions that exist naturally only in the interior of stars and planets.