The 1990 National Academy of Science final report of its review of the Inertial Confinement
Fusion Program recommended completion of a series of target physics objectives on the 10 …

This book focuses on the physics of laser plasma interactions and presents a
complementary and very useful numerical model of plasmas. It describes the linear theory of …

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 …

Our understanding of laser-plasma instability (LPI) physics has improved dramatically over
the past two decades through advancements in experimental techniques, diagnostics, and …

Sunlight-like lasers that have a continuous broad frequency spectrum, random phase
spectrum, and random polarization are formulated theoretically. With a sunlight-like laser …

We present the first simultaneous observations of ion acoustic and electron plasma waves in
laser-produced dense plasmas with Thomson scattering. In addition to measuring the …

Thomson scattering has recently been introduced as a fundamental diagnostic of plasma
conditions and basic physical processes in dense, inertial confinement fusion plasmas …

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 …

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of laser-plasma
interactions (LPI), based on a graduate course taught by the author. The emphasis is on …

Two-dimensional simulation studies are reported of the nonlinear development of stimulated
Raman scattering (SRS) from a compact laser hot spot using a reduced model, which …