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Erlan S. Bliss
Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Publications - 59
Citations - 990
Erlan S. Bliss is an academic researcher from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: National Ignition Facility & Laser. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 59 publications receiving 889 citations.
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Description of the NIF Laser
Mary L. Spaeth,Kenneth R. Manes,Daniel H. Kalantar,P. E. Miller,John E. Heebner,Erlan S. Bliss,D. R. Spec,T. G. Parham,Pamela K. Whitman,Paul J. Wegner,P. A. Baisden,Joseph A. Menapace,Mark W. Bowers,Simon J. Cohen,Tayyab I. Suratwala,J. M. Di Nicola,M. A. Newton,J. J. Adams,John B. Trenholme,R. G. Finucane,R. E. Bonanno,D. C. Rardin,P. A. Arnold,S. N. Dixit,G. Erbert,Alvin C. Erlandson,J. Fair,Eyal Feigenbaum,W. H. Gourdin,R. A. Hawley,John Honig,R. K. House,K. S. Jancaitis,K. N. LaFortune,D. Larson,B. J. Le Galloudec,J. D. Lindl,B. J. MacGowan,C. D. Marshall,Kathleen McCandless,R. W. McCracken,Richard C. Montesanti,Edward I. Moses,Mike C. Nostrand,J. A. Pryatel,V. S. Roberts,S. Rodriguez,A. W. Rowe,Richard A. Sacks,J. T. Salmon,M. J. Shaw,S. Sommer,Christopher J. Stolz,G. L. Tietbohl,C. C. Widmayer,R. Zacharias +55 more
TL;DR: The National Ignition Facility (NIF) as discussed by the authors was designed and built to meet the challenges for study of high energy-density physics and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosi...
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Nova experimental facility (invited)
TL;DR: The recently activated Nova laser facility as discussed by the authors is capable of irradiating complex targets with laser wavelengths of 0.53 and 0.35 μm and pulse widths that range from 0.09 to >5 ns, and peak powers greater than several terrawatts per beam line.
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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.
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Progress on converting a NIF quad to eight, petawatt beams for advanced radiography
John K. Crane,G. L. Tietbohl,P. A. Arnold,Erlan S. Bliss,Charles D. Boley,G Britten,G Brunton,W. Clark,Jay W. Dawson,Scott N. Fochs,Richard P. Hackel,Constantin Haefner,John M. Halpin,John E. Heebner,Mark A. Henesian,Mark R. Hermann,Jose D. Hernandez,V.K. Kanz,Brent McHale,J B McLeod,H. Nguyen,H Phan,Michael C. Rushford,Brian Shaw,M. Y. Shverdin,R. Sigurdsson,R. Speck,Christopher J. Stolz,D. Trummer,Justin E. Wolfe,J N Wong,G C Siders,Christopher P. J. Barty +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors converted a quad of NIF beamlines into eight, short-pulse (1-50 ps), petawatt-class beams for advanced radiography and fast ignition experiments.
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Compact, Efficient Laser Systems Required for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy
Andy J. Bayramian,Salvador M. Aceves,T. Anklam,Kevin Baker,Erlan S. Bliss,Charles D. Boley,Amber L. Bullington,John A. Caird,D. Chen,Robert J. Deri,Mike Dunne,Alvin C. Erlandson,Daniel L. Flowers,Mark A. Henesian,J F Latkowski,Kenneth R. Manes,William A. Molander,Edward I. Moses,T. Piggott,S. Powers,S. Rana,S. Rodriguez,Richard H. Sawicki,Kathleen I. Schaffers,Lynn G. Seppala,Mary L. Spaeth,S.B. Sutton,S. Telford +27 more
TL;DR: The conceptual design for laser drivers used in Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) power plants is presented and statistical modeling predicts that laser-system availability can be greater than 99% provided that components meet reasonable mean-time-between-failure specifications.