Project Team

The design team is responsible for developing requirements and concepts for short-pulse generation, chirped-pulse amplification, compression, beam focusing, co-timing, and co-pointing. The design effort also includes multiple focusing geometries, on-target pulse width adjustability, and identifying critical technology needs and commercial solutions.

The prototyping team addresses the three areas of highest risk that have been identified for the RI-1 project:

1. The development of actively cooled disk amplifiers (ACoDA),
2. The development of a manufacturing process to produce large aperture gratings, and
3. The manufacturing process for growing large boules of highly uniform deuterated potassium dihydrogen phosphate (DKDP) crystals.

The demonstration of these prototypes and processes will allow a future implementation project to be ready for final design in the first one to two years.