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 …

X-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) provides enhanced image contrast beyond absorption-
based x-ray imaging alone due to refraction and diffraction from gradients in the object …

Ignition requires precisely controlled, high convergence implosions to assemble a dense
shell of deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel with ρR>∼ 1 g/cm 2 surrounding a 10 keV hot spot with …

Capsule performance optimization campaigns will be conducted at the National Ignition
Facility [GH Miller, EI Moses, and CR Wuest, Nucl. Fusion 44, 228 (2004)] to substantially …

The performance of triple-picket deuterium-tritium cryogenic target designs on the OMEGA
Laser System [TR Boehly, Opt. Commun. 133, 495 (1997) OPCOB8 0030-4018 …

A varicose-perturbed, thin, heavy-gas curtain is impulsively accelerated by a planar shock
wave of varying strength and investigated experimentally using concentration field …

Shock ignition is a two-step inertial confinement fusion concept where a strong shock wave
is launched at the end of the laser pulse to ignite the compressed core of a low-velocity …

The success of direct-drive-ignition target designs depends on two issues: the ability to
maintain the main fuel adiabat at a low level and the control of the nonuniformity growth …

The field of nuclear diagnostics for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is broadly reviewed
from its beginning in the seventies to present day. During this time, the sophistication of the …

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) power, in either pure fusion or fission-fusion hybrid reactors,
is a possible solution for future world's energy demands. Formation of uniform layers of a …