The spectacular progress made during the last few years in reaching high energy densities
in fast implosions of annular current sheaths (fast Z pinches) opens new possibilities for a …

Fisher and collaborators at the University of California, Irvine, invented the gas puff Z-pinch
in the late 1970s using a 200-kA generator. The implementation of gas puffs as a copious …

The demonstration of magnetic field compression to many tens of megagauss in cylindrical
implosions of inertial confinement fusion targets is reported for the first time. The OMEGA …

Energetic protons up to 30 MeV have been measured from high intensity laser interactions
(⩽ 5× 10 19 W/cm 2) with solid density plasmas. Up to 10 12 protons (> 2 MeV) were …

Magnetic field measurement in Z-pinch plasma has drawn considerable interest because it
is a key problem in the research of dynamic behaviors and the coupling of magnetic field …

Using detailed spectroscopic measurements, highly resolved in both time and space, a self-
generated plasma rotation is demonstrated using a cylindrical implosion with a …

The fundamental physics of the magnetic field distribution in a plasma implosion with a
preembedded magnetic field is investigated within a gas-puff Z pinch. Time and space …

A compact, self-contained magnetic-seed-field generator (5 to 16 T) is the enabling
technology for a novel laser-driven flux-compression scheme in laser-driven targets. A …

A strong quasistationary magnetic field is generated in hollow targets with curved internal
surface under the action of a relativistically intense picosecond laser pulse. Experimental …

The magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) approach to inertial confinement fusion [Slutz
et al., Phys. Plasmas 17, 056303 (2010); Cuneo et al., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 40, 3222 …