8th High Average Power Laser Program Workshop


5-6 February 2004
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.



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Thursday, February 5, 2004

INTRODUCTION  
8:00-8:30             Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc All
8:30-8:40
(10)
Welcome + Logistics (ppt) Said Abdel-Khalik (Georgia Tech)
8:40-9:00
(20)
Introduction (ppt) J. Sethian (NRL)
R. Schneider (DoE)
LASERS  
9:00 - 9:25
(25)
Mercury Diode Pumped Solid State Laser (pdf) C. Bibeau (LLNL)
9:25 - 9:50
(25)
Electra KrF Laser (ppt) M. Wolford (SAIC/NRL)
9:50 - 10:00
(10)
LASERS DISCUSSIONS All
POSTER BREAK--  
10:00-10:30
(30)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
FINAL OPTICS  
10:30 - 10:55
(25)
Final Optic Progress (ppt) M. Tillack (UCSD)
10:55 - 11:05
(10)
Final optics discussion All
TARGET DESIGN  
11:05 - 11:25
(20)
High Gain Target Designs (NRL) (pdf) A. Schmitt (NRL)
Group Photo  
11:25 - 11:45 Group Photo All
LUNCH  
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch All
TARGET FABRICATION & INJECTION
 
12:45 - 1:05
(20)
Survivable Target Strategy (ppt) R. Raffray (UCSD)
1:05 - 1:30
(25)
GA Target Progress - Tracking and Target Fab (ppt) R. Petzoldt (GA)
1:30 - 1:50
(20)
Divinyl Benzene (DVB) shells
On meeting uniformity specs (ppt)
D. Schroen (Schafer)
J. Streit (Schafer)
1:50 - 2:15
(25)
Solid DT Studies...Thermal response, DT foam layering, mechanical strength (#1 ppt) (#2 ppt) J. Hoffer (LANL)
D. Geller (LANL)
2:15 - 2:35
(20)
Target injection issues, including propagation in background gas (new task) (pdf) D. Harding (U Roch LLE)
2:35 - 3:05
(30)
Status of Target Injector (ppt) B. Vermillion (GA)
3:05 - 3:30
(25)
Discussion, all things target: design, fabrication and injection, tracking All
POSTER BREAK--  
3:30-4:00
(30)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
CHAMBER MODELING & EXPERIMENTS  
4:00 - 4:15
(15)
University of Wisconsin Chambers work (ppt) J. Santarius (Wisc)
4:15 - 4:35
(20)
SPARTAN Chamber Clearing code (ppt) F. Najmabadi (UCSD)
4:35 - 5:00
(25)
Chamber Experiments with MCFOT (ppt) F. Najmabadi (UCSD)
Tour Georgia Tech Facilities  
5:30-6:30 Tour of Georgia Tech Facilities All are invited, tour is optional

Friday, February 6, 2004

INTRODUCTION  
8:00 - 8:30             Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc All
CHAMBERS TASKS  
8:30 - 8:45
(15)
Chambers Task Coordinator (ppt) R. Raffray (UCSD)
8:45 - 9:30
(45)
Blankets (Raffray ppt) (Sviatoslavsky ppt) R. Raffray (UCSD)
I. Sviatoslavsky (Wisc)
9:30 - 9:50
(20)
Systems studies (ppt) W. Meier (LLNL)
9:50 - 10:00
(10)
CHAMBERS DISCUSSIONS All
POSTER BREAK--  
10:00-10:20
(20)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
FIRST WALL MATERIALS- 1  
10:20 - 10:30
(10)
Introduction-- Our plan to develop a FW concept (ppt) J. Sethian (NRL)
10:30 - 10:40
(10)
Update on Special Issue in J Nuc Materials (ppt) J. Blanchard (Wisc)
10:40 - 11:20
(40)
Exposures of candidate FW materials
RHEPP (ions)-many cycles
Supporting modeling.
(Olson ppt) (Renk ppt) (Tanaka ppt)
C. Olson (SNL)
T. Renk (SNL)
T. Tanaka (SNL)
11:20 - 11:45
(25)
Long term exposure of candidate FW materials XAPPER (x-rays) (ppt) J. Latkowski (LLNL)
LUNCH  
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch All
FIRST WALL MATERIALS- 2  
12:45 - 1:05
(20)
Progress in use of IEC for helium retention studies J. Kulcinski (Wisc) (ppt) J. Kulcinski (Wisc)
1:05 - 1:35
(30)
Micro-engineered armor design (ppt) S. Sharfat (UCLA)
N. Ghoneim (UCLA)
1:35 - 1:45
(10)
Plasma Sprayed Armor (ppt) R. Raffary (UCSD)
S. O¹Dell (PPI)
1:45 - 2:15
(30)
- Bonding monolithic and engineered tungsten to low activation ferritic and thermal stability of interface
- Helium Management through solids
- Status of providing common materials
(ppt)
L. Snead (ORNL)
SOME THOUGHTS ON PHASE II  
2:15 - 2:30 Phase II: Target Fab, Injection and Tracking (ppt) D. Goodin (GA)
2:30 - 2:45 Phase II: Final Optics (ppt) M. Tillack (UCSD)
2:45 - 3:00 Phase II; Materials Development L. Snead (ORNL)
3:00 - 3:15 Phase II; DPSSL (ppt) S. Payne (LLNL)
3:15 - 3:30 Phase II; KrF (ppt) TBD (NRL)
3:30 - 3:35 Workshop Wrap up
Next meeting date and location
J. Sethian

 

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