Abstract
The National Ignition Facility is one football field wide and two long, holds a precision network good to three hundred microns at three sigma across all of it, and focuses 192 giant laser beams on a BB-sized hydrogen target for two millionths of a second. Among the diagnostics watching that is the Drive Diagnostic, which measures the power and wavelength of the third-harmonic light of all 192 beams entering the ten-metre target chamber. John Villanueva describes characterising, aligning and installing the kinematic mount assembly plate system that holds it – metrology at the far end of what a facility like this demands.
Also published as CMSJ-07-1-01, The Journal of the CMSC, Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 2012).
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John K. Villanueva. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, July 25-29, 2011. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2011-017.