9th High Average Power Laser Program Workshop


2-3 June 2004
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.



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Wednesday, June 2, 2004

INTRODUCTION  
8:00-8:30             Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc All
8:30-8:45
(15)
Welcome + Logistics Nasr Ghoneim (UCLA)
8:45-9:05
(20)
Introduction (ppt) J. Sethian (NRL)
LASERS  
9:05 - 9:30
(25)
Mercury Diode Pumped Solid State Laser (ppt) C. Bibeau (LLNL)
9:30 - 9:55
(25)
Electra KrF Laser (ppt) M. Wolford (SAIC/NRL)
9:55 - 10:05
(10)
LASERS DISCUSSIONS All
POSTER BREAK--  
10:05-10:35
(30)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
TARGET DESIGN  
10:35 - 11:00
(25)
High Gain Target Designs. Including threat spectrum from foam insulated target(ppt) J. Perkins (LLNL)
11:00 - 11:05
(5)
High Gain Target Designs. Including issues of req'd pointing and placement accuracy (NRL)(pdf) A. Schmitt (NRL)
given by J. Sethian
11:05 - 11:15
(10)
Target Design Discussion All
11:15 - 11:30
(15)
Characterizing Targets with x-ray tomography (ppt) L. Snead (ORNL)
(given by J. Sethian)
LUNCH  
11:30 - 11:33 Fun with Cicadas (ppt) J. Sethian (NRL)
11:33 - 12:30 Lunch All
TARGET FABRICATION & INJECTION
 
12:30 - 12:40
(10)
Top Level view of the target fabrication and injection R&D plan, put the talks to follow in context (ppt) D. Goodin (GA)
12:40 - 1:00
(20)
Target Survival (ppt) R. Raffray (UCSD)
1:00 - 1:20
(20)
Target injection issues, including propagation in background gas (zip) D. Harding (U Roch LLE)
1:20 - 1:40
(20)
Divinyl Benzene (DVB) shells (ppt) D. Schroen (Schafer)
J. Streit (Schafer)
1:40 - 2:05
(25)
Mass Production of IFE targets (zip) B. Vermillion (GA)
2:05 - 2:30
(25)
Status of Target Injector and Tracking (ppt) R. Petzoldt (GA)
2:30 - 2:55
(25)
Solid DT Studies...Thermal response, DT foam layering, mechanical strength (ppt) J. Sheliak (LANL)
J. Hoffer (LANL)
D. Geller (LANL)
2:55 - 3:15
(20)
Discussion, all things target: design, fabrication and injection, tracking All
POSTER BREAK--  
3:15-3:35
(20)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
CHAMBERS TASKS  
3:35 - 3:50
(15)
Overvies of Chambers and Materials tasks
Top Level View of Chambers Tasks (ppt)
R. Raffray (UCSD)
3:50 - 4:05
(15)
Lithium + Ferritic Steel Blanket design-(thermal-hydraulic + power cycle optimization) (ppt) I. Sviatoslavsky (Wisc)
4:05 - 4:15
(10)
Neutronics (ppt) M. Sawan (Wisc)
4:15 - 4:30
(15)
Initial Work on Ceramic Breeder (ppt) R. Raffray (UCSD)
4:30 - 4:50
(20)
SPARTAN Chamber Dynamics code (ppt) Z. Dragojlovic (UCSD)
4:50 - 5:10
(20)
Systems Studies (ppt) R. Schmitt (LLNL)
5:10 - 5:20
(10)
CHAMBERS DISCUSSIONS All
Group Photo  
5:20 - 5:30
(10)
Group Photo (jpg) All
Tour UCLA Facilities  
5:30-7:00 All are welcome Optional

Thursday, June 3, 2004

INTRODUCTION  
8:00 - 8:30             Coffee, pastries, bagels, etc All
FINAL OPTICS  
8:30 - 8:55
(25)
-Overview of Final Optics R&D
-Plans for large scale tests
-Power plant fielding optics considerations (zip)
M. Tillack (UCSD)
8:55 - 9:15
(20)
Ion Mitigation in Final Optics (ppt) R. Abbott (LLNL)
9:15 - 9:30
(15)
Final optics discussion All
POSTER BREAK--  
9:30-10:00
(30)
Posters will be up for entire workshop All
CHAMBER FIRST WALL - 1  
10:00 - 10:15
(15)
Materials development plan (ppt) J. Sethian (NRL)
L. Snead (ORNL)
10:15 - 10:25
(10)
Update on Special Issue in J Nuc Materials (ppt) J. Blanchard (Wisc)
10:25 - 10:35
(10)
Threat spectra calculations (what hits the wall) (ppt) J. Santarius (Wisc)
10:35 - 11:00
(25)
Long term exposure of candidate FW materials XAPPER (x-rays). Include engineered materials (ppt) J. Latkowski (LLNL)
11:00 - 11:25
(25)
"Dragon-fire" Laser Chamber/materials experiments(ppt) F. Najmabadi (UCSD)
11:25 - 11:55
(30)
IEC for helium retention studies, including first look at engineered materials(ppt) J. Kulcinski (Wisc)
LUNCH  
11:55 - 1:00 Lunch All
CHAMBER FIRST WALL - 2  
1:00 - 1:50
(50)
Exposures of candidate FW materials (first look at engineered materials)
RHEPP (ions)-many cycles
Supporting modeling.
(Olson ppt) (Renk ppt) (Tanaka ppt)
C. Olson (SNL)
T. Renk (SNL)
T. Tanaka (SNL)
1:50 - 2:10
(20)
Bonding tungsten to low activation ferritic (ppt) J. Blanchard (Wisc)
2:10 - 2:50
(40)
Helium Management through solids
Micro-engineered armor design (zip)
S. Sharfat (UCLA)
N. Ghoneim (UCLA)
2:50 - 3:10
(20)
Chamber First wall discussions All
3:10 - 3:20
(10)
Workshop Wrap up
Next meeting date and location
J. Sethian (NRL)

 

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