7th High Average Power Laser Program Workshop


24-25 September 2003
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, U.S.A.



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Wednesday, September 24, 2003

INTRODUCTION  
8:00-8:30             Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc All
8:30-8:50
(20)
Welcome + Logistics (ppt) Jerry Kulcinski (Wisc)
8:50-9:10
(20)
Introduction (ppt) J. Sethian (NRL)
LASERS  
9:10 - 9:35
(25)
Mercury Diode Pumped Solid State Laser (bibeau pdf) (bayramian pdf) C. Bibeau (LLNL)
9:35 - 10:00
(25)
Electra KrF Laser (ppt) J. Sethian (NRL)
10:00 - 10:10
(10)
LASERS DISCUSSIONS All
BREAK--Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Bldg.  
10:10-10:25
(15)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
FINAL OPTICS  
10:25 - 10:50
(25)
Final Optic Progress (ppt)
Evaluation of Al Coatings on SiC including many shot exposures and more
M. Tillack (UCSD)
10:50 - 11:05
(15)
Ion Mitigation in final optics (ppt) R. Abbott (LLNL)
TARGET DESIGN
(Discussion deferred to Target Survival Workshop)
 
11:05 - 11:25
(20)
High Gain Target Designs (NRL) (ppt) D. Colombant (NRL)
11:25 - 11:45
(20)
High Gain Target Designs (LLNL) (ppt) J. Perkins (LLNL)
LUNCH Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Bldg.  
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch and Tour information All
GROUP PHOTO and TOURS  
12:45 - 1:00 Group Photo (Outside Engrg Centers Bldg.) (jpg) (pdf) All
1:00 - 2:00 TOUR of Wisconsin IEC, Shock Tube and Pegasus Experiment All
TARGET FABRICATION & INJECTION
(Discussion deferred to Target Survival Workshop)
 
2:00 - 2:25
(25)
GA Target Fabrication Progress (ppt) D. Goodin (GA)
2:25 - 2:45
(20)
Divinyl Benzene (DVB) shells
foam buckle pressure & uniformity (ppt)
D. Schroen (Schafer)
J. Streit (Schafer)
2:45 - 3:10
(25)
Solid DT Studies...What limits DT layering times over foam (ppt) J. Hoffer (LANL)
3:10 - 3:40
(30)
Thoughts on target fabrication issues for IFE (ppt) D. Harding (U Roch LLE)
3:40 - 4:00
(20)
Status of Target Injector and In-Chamber Tracking (zip) R. Petzoldt (GA)
4:00 - 4:15
(15)
Update on Target heating calculations (ppt) R. Raffray (UCSD)
BREAK/Poster Session--outside tech transfer auditorium  
4:15 - 5:00
(45)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
TARGET SURVIVAL WORKSHOP- Rm 1045, Engrg Centers Bldg.  
4:30 - 6:00
(90)
Starts before afternoon poster session ends All
RECEPTION 19th floor of Van Hise Hall- 1220 Linden Dr.  
6:15 - 7:45
Light Hors d'Oeurves, no host bar All

Thursday, September 25, 2003

INTRODUCTION  
7:30 - 8:00             Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc All
CHAMBERS  
8:00 - 8:30
(30)
University of Wisconsin Chambers work (ppt) G. Moses (Wisc)
8:30 - 8:50
(20)
SPARTAN Chamber Clearing code (ppt) F. Najmabadi (UCSD)
8:50 - 9:15
(25)
Chamber Experiments with MCFOT (ppt) F. Najmabadi (UCSD)
9:15 - 9:30
(15)
CHAMBERS DISCUSSIONS All
BREAK/Poster Session--Tong Auditorium, Engrg Centers Bldg.  
9:30 - 9:45
(15)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
FIRST WALL I  
9:45 - 10:00
(10 + 5)
Introduction--
Concept & capsule summary of battle plan (ppt)
J. Sethian (NRL)
10:00 - 10:15
(10 + 5)
Logistics for publishing our work on Solid First Wall for Laser IFE:
Special issure in Journal of Nuclear Materials
Dedicated session in ANS proceddings in FST (ppt)
J. Blanchard (Wisc)
10:15 - 10:45
(25 + 5)
Armor modeling and design
Engineered Tungsten Surfaces (raffray ppt) (odell ppt)
R. Raffray (UCSD)/
S. O'Dell (PPI, Inc.)
10:45 - 11:15
(25 + 5)
Tungsten Foam armor design (zip) S. Sharafat (UCLA)
M. Anderson,
N. Ghoneim (UCLA)
11:15 - 11:45
(25 + 5)
Bonding monolithic and engineered tungsten to low activation ferritic and thermal stability of interface
Thermal conductivity of foams
Status of providing common materials
Helium Management through solids (ppt)
L. Snead (ORNL)
LUNCH  
11:45 - 12:45 Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Bldg. All
FIRST WALL 2  
12:45 - 1:25
(35 + 5)
Exposures of candidate FW materials
RHEPP (ions)-many cycles
Supporting modeling. (olson ppt) (renk ppt) (renk pdf) (peterson ppt)
C. Olson (SNL) 5
T. Renk (SNL) 17
R. Peterson (LANL) 13
1:25 - 1:50
(20 + 5)
Long term exposure of candidate FW materials
XAPPER (x-rays) (ppt)
J. Latkowski (LLNL)
1:50 - 2:05
(13 + 2)
Progress in use of IEC for helium retention studies (ppt) B. Cipiti (Wisc)
J. Kulcinski (Wisc)
2:05 - 2:25
(15 + 5)
Long term issues
Modeling thermo-mechanical fatigue
Measure mass loss (ppt)
J. Blanchard (Wisc)
2:25 - 2:35
(10)
"Ground rules" for system studies (raffray ppt) (meier ppt) R. Raffray (UCSD)
W. Meier (LLNL)
2:35 - 2:55
(20)
System studies progress R. Raffray (UCSD)
2:55 - 3:15
(20)
System studies progress (ppt) (pdf) W. Meier (LLNL)
3:15 - 3:30 Workshop Wrap up
Next meeting date and location
J. Sethian

 

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