Solid state laser design for inertial confinement fusion: Trends toward power production

2006 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 829-831
Author(s):  
B. Le Garrec ◽  
O. Casagrande
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Inertial Confinement Fusion ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Solid State Laser ◽  
Inertial Confinement ◽  
State Laser ◽  
Confinement Fusion ◽  
Laser Design

scholarly journals Adaptive optics system for solid state laser systems used in inertial confinement fusion

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Thaddeus Salmon ◽  
Erlan S. Bliss ◽  
Jerry L. Byrd ◽  
Mark Feldman ◽  
Michael W. Kartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Inertial Confinement Fusion ◽  
Solid State Laser ◽  
Inertial Confinement ◽  
State Laser ◽  
Confinement Fusion ◽  
Laser Systems ◽  
Adaptive Optics System

scholarly journals A Nuclear Pumped Laser for the Laboratory Microfusion Facility

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Miley
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Inertial Confinement Fusion ◽  
Power Reactor ◽  
Solid State Laser ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Inertial Confinement ◽  
Iodine Laser ◽  
Fission Reactor ◽  
Confinement Fusion

The Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF) has been proposed to study Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) targets with reactor-grade gains. An advanced solid-state laser is the prime candidate as the driver for the LMF. However, here we present a conceptual design for an alternate approach using a Nuclear Pumped Laser (NPL).A pulsed fission reactor is used to excite an oxygen-iodine laser in this design, based on preliminary data on nuclear pumping of O2(1δ). Although a working NPL of this specific type has not yet been assembled, we believe this concept holds great potential, both as a test facility driver and as a future power reactor.

Diode-pumped miniature solid-state laser: design considerations

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 2747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenichi Kubodera ◽  
Kenju Otsuka
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Solid State Laser ◽  
State Laser ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Diode Pumped ◽  
Laser Design

The LD end-pumped Q-switched solid-state laser design software based on the adaptive method

2010 ◽  
Vol 283 (7) ◽  
pp. 1410-1417
Author(s):  
Xiao-lu Song ◽  
Zhen Guo ◽  
Shi-yu Wang ◽  
De-fang Cai
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Adaptive Method ◽  
Solid State Laser ◽  
State Laser ◽  
Laser Design ◽  
Design Software

Single-event high-compression inertial confinement fusion at low temperatures compared with two-step fast ignitor

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. HORA ◽  
G. H. MILEY ◽  
F. OSMAN ◽  
P. EVANS ◽  
P. TOUPS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Inertial Confinement Fusion ◽  
Laser Pulses ◽  
High Gain ◽  
State Density ◽  
Inertial Confinement ◽  
Single Event ◽  
Fast Ignitor ◽  
Confinement Fusion ◽  
Volume Ignition

Compression of plasmas with laser pulses in the 10-kJ range produced densities in the range of 1000 times that of the solid state, where however the temperatures within a few hundred eV were rather low. This induced the fast ignitor scheme for central or peripheral deposition of some 10-kJ ps laser pulses on conventional $n_{\rm s}$-precompressed DT plasma of 3000 times solid-state density. We present results where the ps ignition is avoided and only a single-event conventional compression is used. Following our computations of volume ignition and the excellent agreement with measured highest fusion gains of volume compression, we found conditions where compression to 5000 times that of the solid state and by using laser pulses of 10 MJ produce volume ignition with temperatures between 400 and 800 eV only for high-gain volume ignition.

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