High-gain direct-drive target design for laser fusion
- Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375 (United States)
A new laser fusion target concept is presented with a predicted energy gain of 127 using a 1.3 MJ KrF laser. This energy gain is sufficiently high for an economically attractive fusion reactor. X rays from high- and low-Z materials are used in combination with a low-opacity ablator to spatially tune the isentrope, thereby providing both high fuel compression and a reduction of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability. (c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.
- OSTI ID:
- 20216538
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 7, Issue 6; Other Information: PBD: Jun 2000; ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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