17th High Average Power Laser Program Workshop


30-31 October 2007
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC, U.S.A.



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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

INTRODUCTION  
8:00-8:30
(30)
Hospitality All
8:30-8:50
(20)
Welcome and Introduction (ppt) John Sethian (NRL)
LASERS  
8:50-9:15
(20 + 5)
DPSSL Laser Development (ppt) John Caird (LLNL)
9:15 - 9:40
(20 + 5)
Electra (KrF) Laser Development (ppt) Matt Wolford (NRL)
POSTER BREAK-I  
9:40 - 10:05
(25)
Posters will be up for the entire meeting
Refreshments will be served
 
CHAMBER PHYSICS  
10:05 - 10:30
(20 + 5)
Increasing Chamber Armor Lifetime via the Tamped Target Design in Conjunction with a Low-Pressure Chamber Buffer Gas (ppt) Thad Helmetes and G Moses, (Wisconsin)
10:30 - 10:55
(20 + 5)
Improvements to magnetic intervention (ppt) Bertie Robson
10:55 - 11:20
(20 + 5)
Computational Modeling of Magnetic Intervention (ppt) David Rose (Voss Sci)
11:20 - 11:30
(10)
Target and Chamber Physics Discussions All
Group Photo  
11:30 - 11:40
(10)
Smile (jpg) All
LUNCH (Friedman Room, Bldg 226)  
11:40 - 12:40
(60)
Lunch All
MATERIALS-I  
12:40 - 1:10
(25 + 5)
A Review of RHEPP results in First-Wall materials treatment (ppt) Tim Renk (SNL)
1:10 - 1:35
(20 + 5)
Update on the Pulsed E-beam Thermal Fatigue System (ppt) Chad Duty (ORNL)
1:35 - 2:00
(20 + 5)
Recent results from Dragonfire armor experiments (ppt) Farrokh Najmabadi (UCSD)
2:00 - 2:25
(20 + 5)
Fluence Effects of 30 keV He+ and D+ Implanted in CCV and W/CCV First Wall Materials at 1150 Angstroms (ppt) Sam Zenobia (Wisconsin)
2:25 - 2:50
(20 + 5)
Dielectric mirrors and first wall issues.
-and-
Implanted ion issues.
Snead (ppt)
Parikh (ppt)
Lance Snead
-and-
N Parikh
POSTER BREAK-II  
2:50 - 3:15
(25)
Posters will be up for the entire meeting
Refreshments will be served
 
MATERIALS-II  
3:15 - 3:40
(20 + 5)
Unified Materials Response Code (zip) Nasr Ghoneim (UCLA)
3:40 - 4:05
(20 + 5)
Activities in Helium transport, Carbon diffusion, SiC/SiC Isochoric Heating, and SiC Properties Database (pdf) Shahram Sharafat (UCLA)
4:05 - 4:15
(10)
Materials Discussions All
FINAL OPTICS  
4:15 - 4:40
(20 +5)
Progress in fabrication and testing of grazing-incidence metal mirrors (ppt) John Pulsifer and Mark Tillack (UCSD)
4:40 - 5:05
(20 + 5)
Survival of Final Optics in Current HAPL Chamber (ppt) Mohamed Sawan (Wisconsin)
5:05 - 5:25
(15 + 5)
Long lifetime optical coatings for 248 nm: development and testing (ppt) Tom Lehecka (Penn State)
5:25 - 5:35
(10)
Final optics discussion All

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

INTRODUCTION  
8:00 - 8:30
(30)
Hospitality All
CHAMBERS AND CHAMBER TECHNOLOGIES  
8:30 - 8:55
(20 + 5)
Fuel Recovery and Breeding Blanket Material Options and Comparison (pdf) Charles Gentile (PPPL)
8:55 - 9:20
(20 + 5)
Dimensions of the HAPL core system (blanket/shield, VV, magnets, bioshield) for different magnetic intervention configurations (ppt) Mohamed Sawan (Wisconsin)
9:20 - 9:45
(20 + 5)
HAPL's Potential Tritium Issues (Presentation ppt) -and- (Tritium Whitepaper pdf) Kirk Shanahan (SRNL)
9:45 - 9:50
(5)
Chambers Discussion All
TOUR  
9:50 - 11:00
(70)
Nike Laser: Tour and presentation of future direction (pdf) Steve Obenschain and the Nike Team (NRL)
TARGET DESIGN  
11:00 - 11:25
(20 + 5)
Laser direct-drive IFE targets; sensitivity to fabrication and drive imperfections (pdf) Andy Schmitt (NRL)
TARGET FABRICATION-I  
11:25 - 11:55
(25 + 5)
Progress in Target Fabrication - Foam Capsules, Overcoatings (ppt) Jared Hund (GA)
11:55 - 12:15
(15 + 5)
Overcoatings for HAPL foams (ppt) John Karnes (Schafer)
LUNCH (Friedman Room, Bldg 226)  
12:15 - 1:05
(50)
Lunch All
TARGET FABRICATION-II  
1:05 - 1:25
(15 + 5)
Progress Towards a Mass Production Layering Demo (zip) Neil Alexander (GA)
1:25 - 1:50
(20 + 5)
Solid DT Layering Experiments (zip) Drew Geller and John Sheliak (LANL)
1:50 - 2:15
(20 + 5)
OMEGA experiments and plans (Omega pdf) -and- (Target Heating ppt) David Harding (Univ. of Rochester)
TARGET INJECTION/ENGAGEMENT  
2:15 - 2:40
(20 + 5)
Update on Target Injection/Positioning (zip) Ron Petzoldt (GA)
2:40 - 3:05
(20 + 5)
Progress in Target Tracking Demonstrations (ppt) Lane Carlson (UCSD)
3:05 - 3:15
(10)
Target Discussions All
WRAP UP  
3:15 - 3:25
(10)
Wrap up
Next meeting date and location
J. Sethian (NRL)

 

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