Assessment and mitigation of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) impacts at short-pulse laser facilities

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) will be impacted by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) during normal long-pulse operation, but the largest impacts are expected during short-pulse operation utilizing the Advanced Radiographic Capability (ARC). Without mitigation these impacts could range from data corr...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 244; no. 3; p. 032001
Main Authors Jr, C G Brown, Bond, E, Clancy, T, Dangi, S, Eder, D C, Ferguson, W, Kimbrough, J, Throop, A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.08.2010
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Impact damage
Physics
Short pulses
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Summary:The National Ignition Facility (NIF) will be impacted by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) during normal long-pulse operation, but the largest impacts are expected during short-pulse operation utilizing the Advanced Radiographic Capability (ARC). Without mitigation these impacts could range from data corruption to hardware damage. We describe our EMP measurement systems on Titan and NIF and present some preliminary results and thoughts on mitigation.
ISSN:1742-6596
1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/244/3/032001