… MJ fusion yields from a direct-drive target … in laser technology motivated by the physics that
have been learned over the past decade. Fusion in the laboratory remains a grand scientific …

… of the evaporated part of a target (corona), are their total energy and particle temperature. …
) when a laser-plasma interaction was organized close to implosion of the direct-drive target, …

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 …

… Inertial confinement fusion, in which a … laser pulses (direct-drive) or soft X-rays (indirect-drive)
to high temperature and high density (to reach the fusion ignition condition), makes a fusion…

… Abstract Direct-drive laser fusion has one potential … G is the energy gain of the fusion target
and EL is the laser energy. … of the science and technology of glass lasers could eventually be …

… alpha heating to low energy gain [41]. The goal of the National Direct-Drive ICF Program is
to determine the physics and laser requirements for multi-MJ direct-drive target performance. …

… In summary, high gain target designs, with sufficient gain for fusion energy, have been …
been made in development of the science and technologies needed for a practical fusion …

… commercial reactor and relatively simple and technological targets… direct drive approach
promises a more efficient use of laser energy and a higher fusion energy gain by applying laser …

… direct drive of capsules by lasers can be used. Large-scale economic fusion energy production
is based on the nuclear fusion … power technology for the ICF goal. The physics of the …

… The direct-drive implosion uses laser energy that impinges directly on a spherical target …
sparked many developments in both fusion and laser technology, and continues to do so. …