Abstract
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the latest in a series of large-scale pulsed fusion lasers that was the result of 50 years of work in the US Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program. The NIF is directed toward providing an experimental user facility that supports high energy density (HED) science activities in fundamental science and thermonuclear burn in a laboratory environment. This was accomplished by thousands of people who contributed the technical ideas and innovations over several generations of scientists and engineers at LLNL and other ICF laboratories, such as the Univ. of Rochester LLE, Sandia Natl. Lab., Los Alamos Natl. Lab., and the Naval Research Lab., as well as a broad set of industrial partners. Topics of this talk will include: laser development history and overview of NIF, summary results of ignition on NIF to date, other science applications enabled by HED capabilities of NIF, and the underlying laser technologies that are enabling applications of lasers to industrial and scientific applications.
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