RECENT DIAGNOSTIC DEVELOPMENT FOR INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION-RESEARCH AT LOS-ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY

Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments require sophisticated di agnostics with temporal resolution measured in tens of picoseconds and spatial resolutions measured in microns. The Los Alamos ICF Program i s currently supporting a number of diagnostics on the Nova and Trident laser facilities and is developing new diagnostics for use on the Ome ga laser facility. New systems and technologies are being developed fo r use on the National Ignition Facility, which is expected to be opera tional early in the next decade.