For more than half a century, researchers around the world have been engaged in attempts
to achieve fusion ignition as a proof of principle of various fusion concepts. Following the …

On December 5, 2022, an indirect drive fusion implosion on the National Ignition Facility
(NIF) achieved a target gain G target of 1.5. This is the first laboratory demonstration of …

An inertial fusion implosion on the National Ignition Facility, conducted on August 8, 2021
(N210808), recently produced more than a megajoule of fusion yield and passed Lawson's …

Ultrafast radiographic imaging and tracking (U-RadIT) use state-of-the-art ionizing particle
and light sources to experimentally study sub-nanosecond transients or dynamic processes …

We present the design of the first igniting fusion plasma in the laboratory by Lawson's
criterion that produced 1.37 MJ of fusion energy, Hybrid-E experiment N210808 (August 8 …

Inertial confinement fusion implosions must achieve high in-flight shell velocity, sufficient
energy coupling between the hot spot and imploding shell, and high areal density (ρ R=∫ ρ …

The impact to fusion energy production due to the radiative loss from a localized mix in
inertial confinement implosions using high density carbon capsule targets has been …

Since the seminal paper of Nuckolls triggering the quest of inertial confinement fusion (ICF)
with lasers, hydrodynamic instabilities have been recognized as one of the principal hurdles …

We present measurements of ice-ablator mix at stagnation of inertially confined,
cryogenically layered capsule implosions. An ice layer thickness scan with layers …

Inertial confinement fusion implosions designed to have minimal fluid motion at peak
compression often show significant linear flows in the laboratory, attributable per simulations …