Abstract
A project to develop a 1000 TW (petawatt) class laser began in 1992 in order to provide the capability to examine the fast ignitor concept for inertial confinement fusion (ICF). The laser was designed to produce 1 kilojoule pulses with a duration less than 500 fsec and be focusable to an irradiance in excess of 1021 W/cm2.1 Experiments in fast ignition of both directly and indirectly-driven implosions required the addition of a controllable 100-300 psec duration prepulse and synchronization to the beamlines of the Nova laser to better than 20 psec.2
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