T. Salmon

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.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates how the algorithm senses the modified beam by using a newly proposed criterion of correlation peak pedestal area and executes an alternate algorithm in real time without operator intervention.

TL;DR: The National Ignition Facility (NIF) utilizes 192 high-energy laser beams focused with enough power and precision on a hydrogen-filled spherical, cryogenic target to potentially initiate a fusion reaction.

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.

TL;DR: The ARC mask requirements, the resulting mask design pattern, and the image analysis algorithms used to detect and identify the beam and reference centers required for ARC alignment are described.