Nuclear experiments with petawatt class lasers

M.D. Perry; T. Cowan; D.M. Pennington; R.A. Snavely; C.G. Brown; S. Hatchett; A. Hunt; M. Key; M. Moran; T. Phillips; C. Sangster; J.A. Sefcik; M. Singh; S. Wilks; Takahashi; Takahashi; W. Fountain; W. Fountain; J. Johnson; J. Johnson; T. Parnell; T. Parnell

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
(Optica Publishing Group, 1998),
paper JTuC1

Nuclear experiments with petawatt class lasers

M.D. Perry, T. Cowan, D.M. Pennington, R.A. Snavely, C.G. Brown, S. Hatchett, A. Hunt, M. Key, M. Moran, T. Phillips, C. Sangster, J.A. Sefcik, M. Singh, S. Wilks, Takahashi, W. Fountain, J. Johnson, and T. Parnell

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1998

San Francisco, California United States
3–8 May 1998
ISBN: 1-55752-540-4

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M. D. Perry, T. Cowan, D. M. Pennington, R. A. Snavely, C. G. Brown, S. Hatchett, A. Hunt, M. Key, M. Moran, T. Phillips, C. Sangster, J. A. Sefcik, M. Singh, S. Wilks, Takahashi, W. Fountain, J. Johnson, and T. Parnell, "Nuclear experiments with petawatt class lasers," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, D. Scifres and A. Weiner, eds., (Optica Publishing Group, 1998), paper JTuC1.

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Abstract

A number of experiments using the petawatt laser system¹ at LLNL have now been performed to examine the creation of hot (0.1-1 MeV) electrons and their use in the fast ignition approach to inertial confinement fusion.

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