A single beamline of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has been operated at a wavelength of $526.5\mathrm{nm}$ ( $2\omega$ ) by frequency converting the fundamental $1053\mathrm{nm}$ ( $1\omega$ ) wavelength with an $18.2\mathrm{mm}$ thick type-I potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) second-harmonic generator (SHG) crystal. Second-harmonic energies of up to $17.9\mathrm{kJ}$ were measured at the final optics focal plane with a conversion efficiency of 82%. For a similarly configured 192-beam NIF, this scales to a total $2\omega$ energy of $3.4\mathrm{MJ}$ full NIF equivalent (FNE).

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