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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In order to achieve the several hundred Gbar stagnation pressures necessary for inertial
confinement fusion ignition, implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)[EI …

The octahedral spherical hohlraum provides an ideal and practical approach for indirect-
drive toward a dream fusion with predictable and reproducible gain and opens a route to the …

Alpha-particle self-heating, the process of deuterium–tritium fusion reaction products
depositing their kinetic energy locally within a fusion reaction region and thus increasing the …

The “High-Foot” platform manipulates the laser pulse-shape coming from the National
Ignition Facility laser to create an indirect drive 3-shock implosion that is significantly more …

We investigate yield degradation due to applied low mode P2 and P4 asymmetries in
layered inertial confinement fusion implosions. This study has been performed with a large …

The recently completed National Ignition Campaign (NIC) on the National Ignition Facility
(NIF) showed significant discrepancies between post-shot simulations of implosion …