title: TIR-1 carbon dioxide laser system for fusion.
abstract: During recent years pulsed CO(2) lasers for fusion research have been under construction in the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy and the D. V. Efremov Electro-Physical Apparatus Institute. Efforts are being concentrated at present on two approaches: (1) microsecond laser pulse plasma heating in solenoids and theta pinches (UTRO system) and (2) nanosecond CO(2) laser utilization for inertial confinement fusion. The TIR-1 system was created to develop nanosecond CO(2) laser technology and to study laser-target interaction at 10 microm. This system is designed to deliver ~1-kJ energy in one beam of ~l-nsec duration. The TIR-1 system consists of an oscillator-preamplifier system that produces an ~1-nsec laser pulse with an energy contrast ratio of ~10(6), a large-aperture (30 x 30-cm(2)) triple-pass amplifier capable of providing approximately 1 kJ in a 1-nsec pulse, a target chamber with diagnostic equipment, and associated engineering systems.
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