P. M. Bell

TL;DR: In this paper, two slightly different high-speed framing cameras for use on NOVA and OMEGA upgrade were constructed based on the gating of a microchannel plate, with one detector having a pore length to diameter ratio half that of the other.

TL;DR: In this article, a backlit-pinhole point-projection technique, pinhole and slit arrays, distributed polychromatic sources, and picket-fence backlighters are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of gated microchannel-plate detectors as high-speed framing cameras in laser-driven inertial confinement-fusion experiments is described, using an array of pinholes to image the target, detectors capable of generating up to 16 individual frames with ∼90 ps resolution on a single laser shot.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the hohlraum radiation temperature and symmetry required for ignition-scale inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions, and demonstrate that these hohlrasums absorb 87% to 91% of the incident laser power, resulting in peak radiation temperatures of T(RAD)=300 eV.

TL;DR: Gated x-ray imaging is used to detect the x-rays emission from the imploded core of symmetry capsules at the National Ignition Facility, and how that set was used to predictably tune the implosion symmetry as the laser energy, the laser cone wavelength separation, and the Hohlraum size were increased to ignition scales is described.