Displaying Power Summary Table

Selecting View | Power Summary displays a table that summarizes the overall power balance in a calculation. In contains:

• Power sources:
  • power deposited due to all laser beams that are turned on*
  • intrinsic power due to self-emission from all objects
• Power sinks:
  • power loss due to backscattered laser light (currently fixed at zero)
  • power (wall) loss due to x-ray conversion efficiency
  • power loss due to radiation escaping grid
  • power loss due to radiation absorbed by walls
• Table showing:
  • radiative power emitted and absorbed by each object in the target component grid
  • total laser power deposited in each object
  • direct laser power deposited
  • laser power deposited by short-pulse beams due to portion of beam prior to reflection off of OAPs
  • total reflected laser power deposited
  • contribution to the reflected laser power by individual reflections

* For NIF, this does not include the fractional power of blue, green, or red cones that have their power off (see NIF Beam Parameters dialog).

An example power summary dialog from an OMEGA laser hohlraum simulation is shown below.

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