Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has existed as a field of study since the 1970s, but the field
was born out of the Cold War. In the decades since the 1960s, pioneering research …

Abstract Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities are well-known
pathways towards turbulent mixing layers, in many cases characterized by significant mass …

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 …

The quest for controlled fusion energy has been ongoing for over a half century. The
demonstration of ignition and energy gain from thermonuclear fuels in the laboratory has …

Ignition is needed to make fusion energy a viable alternative energy source, but has yet to
be achieved. A key step on the way to ignition is to have the energy generated through …

The National Ignition Campaign (NIC) was a multi-institution effort established under the
National Nuclear Security Administration of DOE in 2005, prior to the completion of the …

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory includes a
precision laser system now capable of delivering 1.8 MJ at 500 TW of 0.35-μm light to a …

This Letter reports on a series of high-adiabat implosions of cryogenic layered deuterium-
tritium (DT) capsules indirectly driven by a “high-foot” laser drive pulse at the National …

In this work we present the design of the first controlled fusion laboratory experiment to
reach target gain G> 1 N221204 (5 December 2022)[Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 (2024) …