The megajoule laser program — ignition at hand |
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Authors: | D Besnard |
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Institution: | 1.CEA/DAM ?le-de-France,Bruyères le Chatel,France |
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Abstract: | The French Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique (CEA) is
currently building the Laser MegaJoule (LMJ), a 240-beam laser facility, at
the CEA Laboratory CESTA near Bordeaux. LMJ will be a cornerstone of CEA's
“Programme Simulation”, the French Stockpile Stewardship Program. LMJ is
designed to deliver about 2 MJ of 0.35 μm light to targets for high
energy density physics experiments, among which fusion experiments. LMJ
technological choices were validated with the Ligne d'Intégration Laser
(LIL), a scale 1 prototype of one LMJ bundle, built at CEA/CESTA. Plasma
experiments started at the end of 2004 on LIL, which is already open to the
scientific community through the Plasma and Lasers Institute. The
construction of the LMJ building itself started in March of 2003. LMJ will
be gradually commissioned from early 2011, and after an experimental program
to progress toward fusion, the first fusion experiments will begin late
2012. |
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Keywords: | 52 57 -z Laser inertial confinement 52 57 Bc Target design and fabrication 42 60 -v Laser optical systems: design and operation |
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