The national ignition facility: path to ignition in the laboratory

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a 192-beam laser facility presently under construction at LLNL. When completed, NIF will be a 1.8-MJ, 500-TW ultraviolet laser system. Its missions are to obtain fusion ignition and to perform high energy density experiments in support of the US nuclear weapons stockpile. Four of the NIF beams have been commissioned to demonstrate laser performance and to commission the target area including target and beam alignment and laser timing. During this time, NIF demonstrated on a single-beam basis that it will meet its performance goals and demonstrated its precision and flexibility for pulse shaping, pointing, timing and beam conditioning. It also performed four important experiments for Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Science. Presently, the project is installing production hardware to complete the project in 2009 with the goal to begin ignition experiments in 2010. An integrated plan has been developed including the NIF operations, user equipment such as diagnostics and cryogenic target capability, and experiments and calculations to meet this goal. This talk will provide NIF status, the plan to complete NIF, and the path to ignition.     

How exact are simplified scalar approaches to optical fields in oxide-confined stripe-geometry diode lasers?

Optical model, scalar or vectorial one, describing behaviour of an optical field within a diode-laser cavity, is one of the most important parts of modelling of a diode-laser operation. As compared to more accurate vectorial optical approaches, scalar ones are known to be less exact but simultaneously they need much less computation time. Besides, they have been sometimes found to be surprisingly exact even beyond their confirmed range of validity. Therefore, in this paper, real validity limits of their application have been determined by comparing their simplified results with more exact results obtained with the aid of vectorial models. The analysis comprises a comparison of an application of the most popular scalar approach to optical properties of diode lasers, i.e., the effective index method, and the vectorial method of lines for the standard 1.3-μm GaAs-based stripe-geometry diode laser. The scalar model has been found to be quite exact in the case of a determination of the effective refractive index, i.e., the wavelength of emitted radiation, whereas its exactness in the lasing threshold analysis is much worse, especially in the case of higher-order modes. Our analysis is concluded with a determination of the regions where both models give satisfactorily close results.     

Distributivity and stationary reflections

In this paper, we present some relations between generalized distributivity of quotient algebras and Mahlo operations, and show that the distributivity implies some variants of stationary relections.

     

Integration of equipment planning and project scheduling

It is common to schedule project activities first, then the utilization of equipment and its operating crew is planned based on such schedule. Real world experiences indicate that activity scheduling can be heavily impacted by the resources needed. In particular, if a project requires highly specialized and expensive equipment type, then one needs to take into account the schedule and cost of such resources in developing the project schedule.     

Monotonicity properties of operations on generalized topologies

Summary In the paper [5], several operations on generalized topologies are considered. They are not monotone in general, but an old result on monotonicity may be sharpened.     

企业声誉在电子商务消费者信任建立过程的作用机制

声誉是企业的一项重要无形资产,能够增进企业对消费者的吸引力。本文从消费者视野探索企业声誉在电子商务消费者信任建立过程的作用机制。将感知的安全性引入技术接受模型,建立了理论模型及假设,并应用结构方程模型分析软件进行了检验。结果表明,企业声誉通过消费者感知的安全性、有用性和易用性正向影响消费者信任,消费者感知的安全性、易用性也通过感知的有用性影响消费者信任。     

Design of Cavities for a Short Pulse Powerful Large Orbit Gyrotron

Designs of cavities for fundamental and high harmonic operation in Large Orbit Gyrotron (LOG) are discussed. The fundamental operation allows one to use beam currents in the range from 200 A to 300 A achieve output power of the order of 9–10 MW at frequency 143.6 GHz. Mode competition calculations show that stable oscillations in the TE^1,4 mode using high beam currents are possible even with the pitch factor 1.3 which is significantly lower than the design value 1.55. For the second harmonic operation, the maximum current used for excitation of the TE^2,4 mode is 60 A and the optimum magnetic field is 7.6 T. A cavity design for fourth harmonic operation using the TE^4,4 mode is also presented.     

Iteration 2-theories

The axioms of iteration 2-theories capture, up to isomorphism, the equational properties of iteration in conjunction with horizontal and vertical composition in all algebraically complete categories. We give a concrete representation of the free iteration 2-theory generated by a 2-signature.     

Flow-shop scheduling with setup and assembly operations

A scheduling model for a production system including machining, setup and assembly operations is considered. Production of a number of single-item products is ordered. Each product is made by assembling a set of several different parts. First, the parts are manufactured in a flow-shop consisting of multiple machines. Then, they are assembled into products on a single assembly stage. Setup operation and setup time are needed when a machine starts processing the parts or it changes items. The operations are partitioned into several blocks. Each block consists of the machining operations, the setup operations, and the assembly operation(s) for one or several products. The parts of the same item in a block are processed successively. The objective function is the mean completion time for all products. We consider a problem to partition the operations into blocks and sequence the parts in each block so as to minimize the objective function. Solution procedures using pseudo-dynamic programming and a branch-and-bound method are proposed. Computational experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of the solution procedures. It has been found that a good near-optimal schedule is obtained efficiently by the proposed solution procedures.     

Optical Digital Logic Operations by Self-pumped Phase Conjugation in Photorefractive Crystal

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