The direct-drive, laser-based approach to inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is reviewed from
its inception following the demonstration of the first laser to its implementation on the present …

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 …

This work presents one of the most powerful methods of plasma diagnosis in exquisite
detail, to guide researchers in the theory and measurement techniques of light scattering in …

The National Ignition Facility (NIF)[EI Moses, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 112, 012003 (2008);
https://lasers. llnl. gov/], completed in March 2009, is the highest energy laser ever …

This book is the second edition of the original book by John Sheffield, published in 1975,
which for a long time has been a standard textbook and reference book for graduate …

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

Understanding and designing inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions through radiation-
hydrodynamics simulations relies on the accurate knowledge of the equation of state (EOS) …

The effects of an explicit temperature dependence in the exchange correlation (XC) free-
energy functional upon calculated properties of matter in the warm dense regime are …

Direct-drive-implosion experiments on the OMEGA laser [TR Boehly et al., Opt. Commun.
133, 495 (1997)] have showed discrepancies between simulations of the scattered (non …

Accurate knowledge about the equation of state (EOS) of deuterium is critical to inertial
confinement fusion (ICF). Low-adiabat ICF implosions routinely access strongly coupled and …