Target fabrication for the POLAR experiment on the Orion laser facility

作     者：C.Spindloe D.Wyatt D.Haddock I.East J.E.Cross C.N.Danson E.Falize J.M.Foster M.Koenig G.Gregori 

作者机构：Target Fabrication Group Central Laser Facility Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Atomic and Laser Physics Clarendon Laboratory University of Oxford AWE CEA-DAM-DIF Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation Des Laser Intense UMR 7605 CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Université Paris VI 

出 版 物：《High Power Laser Science and Engineering》 (高功率激光科学与工程（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第3卷第1期

页      面：70-75页

核心收录：

学科分类：080901[工学-物理电子学] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 080401[工学-精密仪器及机械] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 0803[工学-光学工程] 

主　　题：astrophysics microtargets 

摘      要：This article describes the fabrication of a suite of laser targets by the Target Fabrication group in the Central Laser Facility(CLF), STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the first academic-access experiment on the Orion laser facility(Hopps et al., Appl. Opt. 52, 3597–3601(2013)) at Atomic Weapons Establishment(AWE). This experiment, part of the POLAR project(Falize et al., Astrophys. Space Sci. 336, 81–85(2011); Busschaert et al., New J. Phys. 15, 035020(2013)),studied conditions relevant to the radiation-hydrodynamic processes occurring in a remarkable class of astrophysical star systems known as magnetic cataclysmic variables. A large number of complex fabrication technologies and research and development activities were required to field a total of 80 high-specification targets. Target design and fabrication procedures are described and initial alignment and characterization data are discussed.