Volume 69

Overview: Development of the National Ignition Facility and the Transition to a User Facility for the Ignition Campaign and High Energy Density Scientific Research

E. I. Moses, J. D. Lindl, M. L. Spaeth, R. W. Patterson, R. H. Sawicki, L. J. Atherton, P. A. Baisden, L. J. Lagin, D. W. Larson, B. J. MacGowan, G. H. Miller, D. C. Rardin, V. S. Roberts, B. M. Van Wonterghem, P. J. Wegner

Description of the NIF Laser

M. L. Spaeth, K. R. Manes, D. H. Kalantar, P. E. Miller, J. E. Heebner, E. S. Bliss, D. R. Speck, T. G. Parham, P. K. Whitman, P. J. Wegner, P. A. Baisden, J. A. Menapace, M. W. Bowers, S. J. Cohen, T. I. Suratwala, J. M. Di Nicola, M. A. Newton, J. J. Adams, J. B. Trenholme, R. G. Finucane, R. E. Bonanno, D. C. Rardin, P. A. Arnold, S. N. Dixit, G. V. Erbert, A. C. Erlandson, J. E. Fair, E. Feigenbaum, W. H. Gourdin, R. A. Hawley, J. Honig, R. K. House, K. S. Jancaitis, K. N. LaFortune, D. W. Larson, B. J. Le Galloudec, J. D. Lindl, B. J. MacGowan, C. D. Marshall, K. P. McCandless, R. W. McCracken, R. C. Montesanti, E. I. Moses, M. C. Nostrand, J. A. Pryatel, V. S. Roberts, S. B. Rodriguez, A. W. Rowe, R. A. Sacks, J. T. Salmon, M. J. Shaw, S. Sommer, C. J. Stolz, G. L. Tietbohl, C. C. Widmayer, R. Zacharias

Damage Mechanisms Avoided or Managed for NIF Large Optics

K. R. Manes, M. L. Spaeth, J. J. Adams, M. W. Bowers, J. D. Bude, C. W. Carr, A. D. Conder, D. A. Cross, S. G. Demos, J. M. G. Di Nicola, S. N. Dixit, E. Feigenbaum, R. G. Finucane, G. M. Guss, M. A. Henesian, J. Honig, D. H. Kalantar, L. M. Kegelmeyer, Z. M. Liao, B. J. MacGowan, M. J. Matthews, K. P. McCandless, N. C. Mehta, P. E. Miller, R. A. Negres, M. A. Norton, M. C. Nostrand, C. D. Orth, R. A. Sacks, M. J. Shaw, L. R. Siegel, C. J. Stolz, T. I. Suratwala, J. B. Trenholme, P. J. Wegner, P. K. Whitman, C. C. Widmayer, S. T. Yang

Cleanliness for the NIF 1ω Laser Amplifiers

M. L. Spaeth, K. R. Manes, J. Honig

Optics Recycle Loop Strategy for NIF Operations Above UV Laser-Induced Damage Threshold

M. L. Spaeth, P. J. Wegner, T. I. Suratwala, M. C. Nostrand, J. D. Bude, A. D. Conder, J. A. Folta, J. E. Heebner, L. M. Kegelmeyer, B. J. MacGowan, D. C. Mason, M. J. Matthews, P. K. Whitman

Large Optics for the National Ignition Facility

P. A. Baisden, L. J. Atherton, R. A. Hawley, T. A. Land, J. A. Menapace, P. E. Miller, M. J. Runkel, M. L. Spaeth, C. J. Stolz, T. I. Suratwala, P. J. Wegner, L. L. Wong

Control and Information Systems for the National Ignition Facility

G. Brunton, A. Casey, M. Christensen, R. Demaret, M. Fedorov, M. Flegel, P. Folta, T. Frazier, M. Hutton, L. Kegelmeyer, L. Lagin, P. Ludwigsen, R. Reed, D. Speck, K. Wilhelmsen

National Ignition Facility Laser System Performance

Mary L. Spaeth, Kenneth R. Manes, M. Bowers, P. Celliers, J.-M. Di Nicola, P. Di Nicola, S. Dixit, G. Erbert, J. Heebner, D. Kalantar, O. Landen, B. MacGowan, B. Van Wonterghem, P. Wegner, C. Widmayer, S. Yang

Target Development for the National Ignition Campaign

A. V. Hamza, A. Nikroo, E. Alger, N. Antipa, L. J. Atherton, D. Barker, S. Baxamusa, S. Bhandarkar, T. Biesiada, E. Buice, E. Carr, C. Castro, C. Choate, A. Conder, J. Crippen, R. Dylla-Spears, E. Dzenitis, S. Eddinger, M. Emerich, J. Fair, M. Farrell, S. Felker, J. Florio, A. Forsman, E. Giraldez, N. Hein, D. Hoover, J. Horner, H. Huang, B. Kozioziemski, J. Kroll, B. Lawson, S. A. Letts, D. Lord, E. Mapoles, M. Mauldin, P. Miller, R. Montesanti, K. Moreno, T. Parham, B. Nathan, J. Reynolds, J. Sater, K. Segraves, R. Seugling, M. Stadermann, R. Strauser, R. Stephens, T. I. Suratwala, M. Swisher, J. S. Taylor, R. Wallace, P. Wegner, H. Wilkens, B. Yoxall

Cryogenic Target System for Hydrogen Layering

T. Parham, B. Kozioziemski, D. Atkinson, P. Baisden, L. Bertolini, K. Boehm, A. Chernov, K. Coffee, F. Coffield, R. Dylla-Spears, O. Edwards, J. Fair, M. Fedorov, J. Fry, C. Gibson, B. Haid, D. Holunga, T. Kohut, T. Lewis, T. Malsbury, E. Mapoles, J. Sater, K. Skulina, D. Trummer, C. Walters

The National Ignition Facility Diagnostic Set at the Completion of the National Ignition Campaign, September 2012

J. D. Kilkenny, P. M. Bell, D. K. Bradley, D. L. Bleuel, J. A. Caggiano, E. L. Dewald, W. W. Hsing, D. H. Kalantar, R. L. Kauffman, D. J. Larson, J. D. Moody, D. H. Schneider, M. B. Schneider, D. A. Shaughnessy, R. T. Shelton, W. Stoeffl, K. Widmann, C. B. Yeamans, S. H. Batha, G. P. Grim, H. W. Herrmann, F. E. Merrill, R. J. Leeper, J. A. Oertel, T. C. Sangster, D. H. Edgell, M. Hohenberger, V. Yu. Glebov, S. P. Regan, J. A. Frenje, M. Gatu-Johnson, R. D. Petrasso, H. G. Rinderknecht, A. B. Zylstra, G. W. Cooper, C. Ruiz

Operations on the National Ignition Facility

Bruno M. Van Wonterghem, Sandra J. Brereton, Robert F. Burr, Peg Folta, Diane L. Hardy, Nicholas N. Jize, Thomas R. Kohut, Terry A. Land, Bernard T. Merritt

Requirements for Triggering the ITER Disruption Mitigation System

P. C. de Vries, G. Pautasso, D. Humphreys, M. Lehnen, S. Maruyama, J. A. Snipes, A. Vergara, L. Zabeo

Disruption Prediction on JET During the ILW Experimental Campaigns

R. Moreno, J. Vega, S. Dormido-Canto, A. Pereira, A. Murari, JET Contributors

Tokamak Plasma Boundary Reconstruction Using Toroidal Harmonics and an Optimal Control Method

Blaise Faugeras

Minimum Fisher Tikhonov Regularization Adapted to Real-Time Tomography

V. Loffelmann, J. Mlynar, M. Imrisek, D. Mazon, A. Jardin, V. Weinzettl, M. Hron

Inversion Methods of the Balmer-α Line Profile for Hydrogen Atom Density Evaluation in High-Temperature Plasmas

Keisuke Fujii, Motoshi Goto, Shigeru Morita, Masahiro Hasuo

Coupling of the Flux Diffusion Equation with the Equilibrium Reconstruction at ASDEX Upgrade

R. Fischer, A. Bock, M. Dunne, J. C. Fuchs, L. Giannone, K. Lackner, P. J. McCarthy, E. Poli, R. Preuss, M. Rampp, M. Schubert, J. Stober, W. Suttrop, G. Tardini, M. Weiland, ASDEX Upgrade Team

On the Validation of Gyrokinetic L-Mode Simulations

T. Görler, A. E. White, D. Told, F. Jenko, C. Holland, T. L. Rhodes

An In Situ Spectral Calibration Method for the Thomson Scattering Diagnostic for New Fusion Experiments

Hiroshi Tojo, Takaki Hatae, Kiyoshi Itami

Validation of Toroidal Rotation and Ion Temperature in KSTAR Plasmas

S. G. Lee, H. H. Lee, W. H. Ko, J. W. Yoo, KSTAR Team

Forward Modeling of X-Ray Imaging Crystal Spectrometers Within the Minerva Bayesian Analysis Framework

A. Langenberg, J. Svensson, H. Thomsen, O. Marchuk, N. A. Pablant, R. Burhenn, R. C. Wolf

Surface Temperature Measurement of In-Vessel Components and Its Real-Time Validation

A. Herrmann, B. Sieglin, M. Faitsch, ASDEX Upgrade Team

Real-Time Infrared Thermography at ASDEX Upgrade

B. Sieglin, M. Faitsch, A. Herrmann, S. Martinov, T. Eich, ASDEX Upgrade Team

A First Approach Toward Bayesian Estimation of Turbulent Plasma Properties from Reflectometry

G. Hornung, A. Shabbir, G. Verdoolaege

Concept and Current Status of Data Acquisition Technique for GEM Detector–Based SXR Diagnostics

A. Wojenski, K. Pozniak, G. Kasprowicz, W. Zabolotny, A. Byszuk, P. Zienkiewicz, M. Chernyshova, T. Czarski

Gaussian Processes for SOLPS Data Emulation

R. Preuss, U von Toussaint

Evaluation of Epsilon-Net Calculated Equilibrium Reconstruction Error Bars in the European Integrated Modeling Platform

R. Coelho, S. Matejcik, P. McCarthy, E. P. Suchkov, F. S. Zaitsev, EU-IM Team, ASDEX Upgrade Team

Synthetic Fast Ion Diagnostics in Tokamaks: Comparing the Monte Carlo Test Particle Code ASCOT Against Experiments

Simppa Äkäslompolo, Taina Kurki-Suonio, Seppo Sipilä, ASCOT Group

Synthetic H-Alpha Diagnostics for ITER: Inverse Problems and Error Estimations for Strong Non-Maxwellian Effects and Intense Divertor Stray Light

A. B. Kukushkin, V. S. Neverov, A. G. Alekseev, S. W. Lisgo, A. S. Kukushkin

GPU-Based Data Processing for 2-D Microwave Imaging on MAST

J. C. Chorley, R. J. Akers, K. J. Brunner, N. A. Dipper, S. J. Freethy, R. M. Sharples, V. F. Shevchenko, D. A. Thomas, R. G. L. Vann

Development of the In Situ Calibration Method for ITER Divertor IR Thermography

Masaki Takeuchi, Tatsuo Sugie, Shigeharu Takeyama, Kiyoshi Itami