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 The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has been designed, constructed and has
recently begun operation to investigate the ignition of nuclear fusion with a laser with up to …

Indirect-drive hohlraum experiments at the National Ignition Facility have demonstrated
symmetric capsule implosions at unprecedented laser drive energies of 0.7 megajoule. One …

Radiative hydrodynamics simulations of ignition experiments show that energy transfer
between crossing laser beams allows tuning of the implosion symmetry. A new full-scale …

The Hohlraum energetics experimental campaign started in the summer of 2009 on the
National Ignition Facility (NIF)[EI Moses et al, Phys. Plasmas 16, 041006 (2009)]. These …

The experimental evidence for multiple-beam laser-plasma instabilities of relevance to laser
driven inertial confinement fusion at the ignition scale is reviewed, in both the indirect and …

Extreme optical fluences, much beyond the damage threshold of conventional optics, are of
interest for a range of high-energy-density physics applications. Nonlinear interactions of …

We measure cross-beam energy transfer (CBET) saturation by ion heating in a gas-jet
plasma characterized using Thomson scattering. A wavelength-tunable ultraviolet (UV) …

Measurements of x-ray–driven implosions with charged particles have resulted in the
quantitative characterization of critical aspects of indirect-drive inertial fusion. Three types of …

The full scale modeling of power transfer between laser beams crossing in plasmas is
presented. A new model was developed, allowing calculations of the propagation and …