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 …

Indirect drive inertial confinement fusion experiments were conducted at the National
Ignition Facility to investigate the performance of the hohlraum drive as a function of …

With the advent of ultrashort high intensity laser pulses, laser absorption during the laser–
solid interactions has received significant attention over the last two decades since it is …

The model given by Patil et al., for the self-focusing of lowest-order Bessel–Gaussian laser
beam, is revisited by introducing the exponential plasma density ramp in this paper. Plasma …

Experiments with multiple laser beams have been carried out in both spherical and planar
geometry to study two-plasmon-decay instability, the predominant source of suprathermal …

This paper presents an investigation of the self-focusing of cosh-Gaussian laser beam in a
plasma with linear absorption taking into account the combined effects of relativistic and …

Advances in hohlraums for inertial confinement fusion at the National Ignition Facility (NIF)
were made this past year in hohlraum efficiency, dynamic shape control, and hot electron …

In this paper the modulational instability associated with propagation of intense laser pulses
in a partially stripped, preformed plasma channel is analyzed. In general, modulation …

The propagation characteristics of an elliptic-Gaussian beam in non-uniform plasma have
been investigated by taking into account the combined effects of relativistic and …

Recent experiments on the Laboratory for Laser Energetics' OMEGA laser have been
carried out to produce strong shocks in solid spherical targets with direct laser illumination …