Abstract

A single-shot, phase-diversity phase-retrieval method is demonstrated for directly characterizing the on-target focal spot at kilojoule energy in the OMEGA 60-beam laser. A 2D holographic grating that introduces diversity focal spots is installed in an existing on-target focal-spot diagnostic to obtain a single-shot diversity focal-spot image. A nonlinear optimization phase-retrieval algorithm with four diversity focal spots is employed to determine modal coefficients for the incident wavefront. The agreement between the measured and calculated focal spots is excellent. This approach can be easily adapted for other high-energy focal-spot diagnostics.

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