Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Overview of Performance and Progress with Inertially Confined Fusion Implosions on the National Ignition Facility

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

In this talk, we will discuss the progress towards ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Northern California. We will cover the some of the setbacks encountered during the progress of the research at NIF, but also cover the great advances that have been made including the achievements of greater than unity fusion 'fuel gain' and alpha-heating dominated fusion plasmas. The research strategy for the future will also be discussed.

© 2015 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
Getting Beyond Unity Fusion Fuel Gain in an Inertially Confined Fusion Implosion

Omar Hurricane
FTh1C.1 CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science (CLEO:FS) 2015

The National Ignition Facility: Status and Performance of the World’s Largest Laser System for the High Energy Density and Inertial Confinement Fusion

C.A. Haynam, P. J. Wegner, G. M. Heestand, E. Moses, R. A. Sacks, M. W. Bowers, S. N. Dixit, G. V. Erbert, M. A. Henesian, M. R. Hermann, K. S. Jancaitis, K. Knittel, T. Kohut, K. R. Manes, C. D. Marshall, N. C. Mehta, J. Menapace, J. R. Murray, M. C. Nostrand, C. D. Orth, R. Patterson, R. Saunders, M. J. Shaw, M. Spaeth, S. B. Sutton, W. H. Williams, C. C. Widmayer, R. K. White, S. T. Yang, and B. M. Van Wonterghem
CFQ1 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2008

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies.