Relevance of the U.S. National Ignition Facility for Driver and Target Options to Next-Step Inertial Fusion Test Facilities

Authors :: B. Grant Logan
Source :: AIP Conference Proceedings.
Publication Year :: 1996
Publisher :: AIP, 1996.
Abstract: The use of a 1.8 MJ glass laser in both direct and indirect drive fusion ignition is discussed in reference to the future experiments. Methods of laser pumping, target physics and design are reviewed.

Subjects :: Physics
Fusion
Inertial frame of reference
Nuclear engineering
Physics::Optics
Laser pumping
Glass laser
Physics::Plasma Physics
Fusion ignition
Relevance (information retrieval)
Physics::Atomic Physics
National Ignition Facility
Inertial confinement fusion
Simulation

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