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 …

Inertial confinement fusion seeks to create burning plasma conditions in a spherical capsule
implosion, which requires efficiently absorbing the driver energy in the capsule, transferring …

High-energy γ rays generated from inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments have
become an important signature for studying the dynamics of implosion processes. Due to …

The National Diagnostic Working Group (NDWG) has led the effort to fully exploit the major
inertial confinement fusion/high-energy density facilities in the US with the best available …

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 …

The application of an external 26 Tesla axial magnetic field to a D 2 gas-filled capsule
indirectly driven on the National Ignition Facility is observed to increase the ion temperature …

Deuterium-tritium inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments on the National Ignition
Facility have demonstrated yields ranging from 0.8 to 7× 10 14, and record fuel areal …

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 …