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LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 37-45Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034607070073
Keywords
fusion energy; ITER and JET; laser driven ICF; nonlinear effects; volume ignition; fast igniter; effect without self-focusing; laser driven very high ion densities; plasma block (piston) ignition of low density DT
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Magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) based on neutral particle beam irradiation reached the highest gains with JET and is discussed in relation to the ITER project for a possible re-orientation with respect to the ignition process. Ignition plays a similar role for inertial confinement fusion (ICF). After a short review about specific ICF developments, the fast igniter development offered a re-consideration of igniting DT fuel at modest or low compression. The observation of extreme anomalies (Sauerbrey 1996, Zhang et al., 1998 and Badziak et al., 1999) tit interaction of picosecond (ps) laser Pulses above TW power could be explained as a skin layer mechanism based on earlier computations (Hora et al., 2002) with nonlinear (ponderomotive) force acceleration. The resulting very high ion current density space charge neutral plasma blocks interacting as pistons to ignite DT may lead to a new scheme of laser fusion with low cost energy generation.
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