D
D. Nelson
Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Publications - 3
Citations - 93
D. Nelson is an academic researcher from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: National Ignition Facility & Inertial confinement fusion. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 87 citations.
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National Ignition Facility system alignment.
S. C. Burkhart,Erlan S. Bliss,P. Di Nicola,Daniel H. Kalantar,R. Lowe-Webb,T. McCarville,D. Nelson,T. Salmon,T. Schindler,J. Villanueva,K. Wilhelmsen +10 more
TL;DR: The National Ignition Facility (NIF) as discussed by the authors is the world's largest optical instrument, comprising 192 37'cm square beams, each generating up to 9.6'kJ of 351'nm laser light in a 20'ns beam precisely tailored in time and spectrum.
The National Ignition Facility System Alignment
S. C. Burkhart,Erlan S. Bliss,P D Nicola,Daniel H. Kalantar,R. Lowe-Webb,T. McCarville,D. Nelson,T. Salmon,T. Schindler,J. Villanueva,K. Wilhelmsen +10 more
TL;DR: The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world's largest optical instrument, comprising 192 37 cm square beams, each generating up to 9.6 kJ of 351 nm laser light in a 20 ns beam precisely tailored in time and spectrum.
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The National Ignition Facility: alignment from construction to shot operations
S. C. Burkhart,Erlan S. Bliss,P. Di Nicola,Daniel H. Kalantar,R. Lowe-Webb,T. McCarville,D. Nelson,T. Salmon,T. Schindler,J. Villanueva,K. Wilhelmsen +10 more
TL;DR: The National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, completed it's commissioning milestone on March 10, 2009 when it fired all 192 beams at a combined energy of 1.1 MJ at 351nm, the culmination of 15 years of engineering design of a stable facility, commissioning of precision alignment, and precise shot operations controls.