Mechanical construction of the 22 Nova laser
Abstract
The largest precision opto-mechanical system ever built, the Nova laser system was designed for interial confinement fusion. The construction of the system is described including the clean rooms, the mirror, amplifiers, spatial filters, Faraday rotators, and the support.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 10th Symp. on Fusion Eng
- Pub Date:
- November 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983fuen.sympS...5H
- Keywords:
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- Inertial Confinement Fusion;
- Nova Laser System;
- Spatial Filtering;
- Systems Engineering;
- Alignment;
- Amplifiers;
- Clean Rooms;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Supports;
- Lasers and Masers