Resonantly-pumped soft-X-ray lasers using ICF drivers

Some aspects of laser design relating to experiments planned for the NOVETTE laser system at Livermore in early 1983 are discussed. The experiments are aimed at testing several resonantly pumped lasers with transition energies between 42.3 eV and 153 eV. These experiments follow several years of theoretical work, a set of flashlamp characterization experiments performed on the SHIVA laser system in December, 1981, and some high precision spectroscopic studies carried out at KMS during the summer of 1982. Some of the major physics design issues as they relate to the experiments, and some of the numerical simulations that have been carried out so far are reviewed.