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Kenneth R. Manes
Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Publications - 90
Citations - 2435
Kenneth R. Manes is an academic researcher from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & National Ignition Facility. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 89 publications receiving 2200 citations.
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National Ignition Facility laser performance status
C. A. Haynam,Paul J. Wegner,Jerome M. Auerbach,Mark W. Bowers,S. N. Dixit,G. Erbert,G M Heestand,Mark A. Henesian,Mark R. Hermann,Kenneth S. Jancaitis,Kenneth R. Manes,Christopher D. Marshall,N C Mehta,Joseph A. Menapace,Edward I. Moses,John R. Murray,Mike C. Nostrand,Charles D. Orth,R. W. Patterson,Richard A. Sacks,M. J. Shaw,Mary L. Spaeth,S.B. Sutton,Wade H. Williams,C. C. Widmayer,R K White,Steven T. Yang,B. M. Van Wonterghem +27 more
TL;DR: Results demonstrate that the NIF will meet its laser performance design criteria, and that theNIF can simultaneously meet the temporal pulse shaping, focal-spot conditioning, and peak power requirements for two candidate indirect drive ignition designs.
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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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Kinoform phase plates for focal plane irradiance profile control.
TL;DR: A versatile, rapidly convergent, iterative algorithm is presented for the construction of kinoform phase plates for tailoring the far-field intensity distribution of laser beams that contains more than 95% of the incident energy inside a desired region and is relatively insensitive to beam aberrations.
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Damage Mechanisms Avoided or Managed for NIF Large Optics
Kenneth R. Manes,Mary L. Spaeth,John J. Adams,Mark W. Bowers,Jeffrey D. Bude,Christopher W. Carr,A. Conder,David A. Cross,Stavros G. Demos,J. M. Di Nicola,S. N. Dixit,Eyal Feigenbaum,R. G. Finucane,Gabriel M. Guss,Mark A. Henesian,John Honig,Daniel H. Kalantar,Laura M. Kegelmeyer,Z. M. Liao,B. J. MacGowan,Manyalibo J. Matthews,Kathleen McCandless,N C Mehta,P. E. Miller,Raluca A. Negres,Mary A. Norton,Mike C. Nostrand,Charles D. Orth,Richard A. Sacks,M. J. Shaw,L. R. Siegel,Christopher J. Stolz,Tayyab I. Suratwala,John B. Trenholme,Paul J. Wegner,Pamela K. Whitman,C. C. Widmayer,Steven T. Yang +37 more
TL;DR: After every other failure mode has been considered, in the end, the high performance limit of all lasers is set by optical damage as discussed by the authors, and the demands of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) pushed lasers des...
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Characterization of laser‐produced plasma x‐ray sources for use in x‐ray radiography
Dennis L Matthews,E. M. Campbell,Natale M. Ceglio,G. Hermes,Robert L. Kauffman,L. N. Koppel,Richard W. Lee,Kenneth R. Manes,V. C. Rupert,V. W. Slivinsky,Robert Turner,F. Ze +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the absolute conversion efficiency from the incident laser light energy to x-ray photons for laser-produced plasmas was studied as a function of laser wavelength, pulsewidth, and intensity.