Abstract
The conceptual design of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser passes each of its 192 beams through power amplifiers four times to maximize the energy extracted from the glass slabs,1 and the aberrations induced in the slabs by the flashlamps are added to the beam on each of the four passes. Hence, operating this system with beams near the diffraction limit requires the use of active optics that are set to the conjugate wave front of the aberration expected on the next laser pulse.
© 1995 Optical Society of America
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