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MATTER AND RADIATION AT EXTREMES
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 37-54Publisher
AIP PUBLISHING LLC
DOI: 10.1016/j.mre.2017.03.001
Keywords
Inertial fusion; Direct drive; Laser interactions; Hydrodynamics; Omega; National ignition facility
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- Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0001944]
- University of Rochester
- New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
- agency of the U.S. Government
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Along with laser-indirect (X-ray)-drive and magnetic-drive target concepts, laser direct drive is a viable approach to achieving ignition and gain with inertial confinement fusion. In the United States, a national program has been established to demonstrate and understand the physics of laser direct drive. The program utilizes the Omega Laser Facility to conduct implosion and coupling physics at the nominally 30-kJ scale and laser-plasma interaction and coupling physics at the MJ scale at the National Ignition Facility. This article will discuss the motivation and challenges for laser direct drive and the broad-based program presently underway in the United States. Copyright (C) 2017 Science and Technology Information Center, China Academy of Engineering Physics. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.
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