Matter and Radiation at Extremes (Sep 2017)

Laser performance upgrade for precise ICF experiment in SG-Ⅲ laser facility

  • Wanguo Zheng,
  • Xiaofeng Wei,
  • Qihua Zhu,
  • Feng Jing,
  • Dongxia Hu,
  • Xiaodong Yuan,
  • Wanjun Dai,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Dangpeng Xu,
  • Xudong Xie,
  • Bin Feng,
  • Zhitao Peng,
  • Liangfu Guo,
  • Yuanbin Chen,
  • Xiongjun Zhang,
  • Lanqin Liu,
  • Donghui Lin,
  • Zhao Dang,
  • Yong Xiang,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Huaiting Jia,
  • Xuewei Deng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mre.2017.07.004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 5
pp. 243 – 255

Abstract

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The SG-Ⅲ laser facility (SG-Ⅲ) is the largest laser driver for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) researches in China, which has 48 beamlines and can deliver 180 kJ ultraviolet laser energy in 3 ns. In order to meet the requirements of precise physics experiments, some new functionalities need to be added to SG-Ⅲ and some intrinsic laser performances need upgrade. So at the end of SG-Ⅲ's engineering construction, the 2-year laser performance upgrade project started. This paper will introduce the newly added functionalities and the latest laser performance of SG-Ⅲ. With these function extensions and performance upgrade, SG-Ⅲ is now fully prepared for precise ICF experiments and solidly paves the way towards fusion ignition.