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Focusing lenses for the 20-beam fusion laser, SHIVA

Description: The focus lens design for the 20-beam SHIVA laser fusion facility involves considerations of uniform and normal pellet illumination. The resulting requirements dictate tailored beam intensity profiles and vacuum-loaded thin lenses.
Date: May 18, 1976
Creator: O'Neal, W. C.
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Time-dependent propagation of high-energy laser beams through the atmosphere: II

Description: Various factors that can affect thermal blooming in stagnation zones are examined, including stagnation-zone motion, longitudinal air motion in the neighborhood of the stagnation zone, and the effects of scenario noncoplanarity. Of these effects, only the last offers any reasonable hope of reducing the strong thermal blooming that normally accompanies stagnation zones; in particular, noncoplanarity should benefit multipulse more than cw beams. The methods of treating nonhorizontal winds hydrody… more
Date: May 18, 1976
Creator: Fleck, J. A., Jr.; Morris, J. R. & Feit, M. D.
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