The Orion laser facility at AWE provides multiple beams to target delivering synchronized pulses at both nanosecond and sub-picosecond duration.In the latter,the peak power approaches the petawatt level.This paper pre...
The Orion facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in the United Kingdom has the capability to operate one of its two 500 J, 500 fs short-pulse petawatt beams at the second harmonic, the principal reason being to ...
supported by the EUROfusion Consortium TASK AGREEMENT WPENR:Enabling Research IFE,Project No.AWP15-ENR-01/CEA-02;by the Project of the Spanish Government with reference FIS2016-81019-P;Labex PLAS@PAR(ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02)
In this work we have conducted a study on the radiative and spectroscopic properties of the radiative precursor and the post-shock region from experiments with radiative shocks in xenon performed at the Orion laser fa...
This paper describes the design and fabrication of a range of ‘gas cell' microtargets produced by the Target Fabrication Group in the Central Laser Facility(CLF) for academic access experiments on the Orion laser fac...
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 th...