Ultrafast radiographic imaging and tracking (U-RadIT) use state-of-the-art ionizing particle
and light sources to experimentally study sub-nanosecond transients or dynamic processes …

Since the seminal paper of Nuckolls triggering the quest of inertial confinement fusion (ICF)
with lasers, hydrodynamic instabilities have been recognized as one of the principal hurdles …

The implosion efficiency in inertial confinement fusion depends on the degree of stagnated
fuel compression, density uniformity, sphericity, and minimum residual kinetic energy …

New short-pulse kilojoule, Petawatt-class lasers, which have recently come online and are
coupled to large-scale, many-beam long-pulse facilities, undoubtedly serve as very exciting …

High-resolution, high-energy X-ray backlighters are very active area of research for
radiography experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF)[Miller et al., Nucl. Fusion 44 …

Advances in target fabrication have made double shell capsule implosions a viable platform
to study burning fusion plasmas. Central to the double shell capsule is a high-Z (eg, Au) …

Large scale high-energy density science facilities continue to grow in scale and complexity
worldwide. The increase in driver capabilities, including pulsed-power and lasers, continue …

We report a significant enhancement in both the energy and the flux of relativistic electrons
accelerated by ultra-intense laser pulse irradiation (> 1× 10 21 W cm− 2) of near solid …

The interaction of ultrafast laser pulses of relativistic intensity with high aspect ratio
nanostructures can efficiently and volumetrically heat matter to an ultra-high-energy-density …

A fused silica Cherenkov radiator has been implemented at the National Ignition Facility to
provide a new high precision measurement of the time-of-flight spectrum of 14.1 MeV DT …