The possibility of imploding small capsules to produce mini-fusion explosions was explored
soon after the first thermonuclear explosions in the early 1950s. Various technologies have …

Abstract The National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser is the culmination of more than 40 years of
work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory dedicated to the delivery of laser systems …

The design and the early commissioning of the ELI-Beamlines laser facility's 30 J, 30 fs, 10
Hz HAPLS (High-repetition-rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System) beam transport (BT) …

This paper presents our conceptual design for laser drivers used in Laser Inertial Fusion
Energy (LIFE) power plants. Although we have used only modest extensions of existing …

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a 192-beam high energy laser designed for Inertial
Confinement Fusion (ICF), and High Energy Density (HED) and basic science experiments …

Surface defects on optics cause optic failure and heavy loss to the optical system. Therefore,
surface defects on optics must be carefully inspected. This paper proposes a coarse-to-fine …

Polar direct drive neutron source experiments were performed at the National Ignition
Facility showing substantial improvement in total neutron yield and efficiency of conversion …

The spontaneous Raman scattering cross sections of the main peaks (related to the A_1
vibrational mode) in rapid and conventional grown potassium dihydrogen phosphate and …

Abstract The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a high-energy-density-physics, experimental
user facility that focuses up to 1.8 MJ of UV light in 192 laser beams onto a mm-sized target …

Undesirable medium-frequency waviness error along the cutting direction was often left on
the machined surface of KDP crystals adopting ultraprecision single-point diamond flycutting …