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C. P. Verdon
Researcher at University of Rochester
Publications - 52
Citations - 3735
C. P. Verdon is an academic researcher from University of Rochester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Inertial confinement fusion. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 52 publications receiving 3503 citations.
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Initial performance results of the OMEGA laser system
Thomas Boehly,D. L. Brown,R. S. Craxton,R. L. Keck,James Knauer,John H. Kelly,Terrance J. Kessler,S. A. Kumpan,S. J. Loucks,Samuel A. Letzring,F. J. Marshall,R. L. McCrory,S. F. B. Morse,W. Seka,J. M. Soures,C. P. Verdon +15 more
TL;DR: Omega is a 60-terawatt, 60-beam, frequency-tripled Nd:glass laser system designed to perform precision direct-drive inertial-confinement-fusion experiments and the acceptance tests demonstrated exceptional performance throughout the system.
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Growth rates of the ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability in inertial confinement fusion
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple procedure is developed to determine the Froude number Fr, the effective power index for thermal conduction ν, the ablation-front thickness L0, the Ablation velocity Va, and the acceleration g of laser-accelerated ablation fronts.
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Direct-drive laser fusion: Status and prospects
Stephen E. Bodner,Denis Colombant,John H. Gardner,Robert Lehmberg,Stephen P. Obenschain,Lee Phillips,Andrew J. Schmitt,John D. Sethian,R. L. McCrory,W. Seka,C. P. Verdon,James Knauer,Bedros Afeyan,Howard T. Powell +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, techniques have been developed to improve the uniformity of the laser focal profile, to reduce the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and to suppress the various laser-plasma instabilities.
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The upgrade to the OMEGA laser system
Thomas Boehly,R. S. Craxton,T. H. Hinterman,John H. Kelly,Terrance J. Kessler,S. A. Kumpan,Samuel A. Letzring,R. L. McCrory,S. F. B. Morse,W. Seka,S. Skupsky,J. M. Soures,C. P. Verdon +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the OMEGA laser system, a 30kJ, 351nm, 60-beam direct-drive laser-fusion system, is described along with the status of its construction and the plans for system activation.
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Direct‐drive laser‐fusion experiments with the OMEGA, 60‐beam, >40 kJ, ultraviolet laser system
J. M. Soures,R. L. McCrory,C. P. Verdon,A. Babushkin,R. E. Bahr,T. R. Boehly,Robert Boni,D. K. Bradley,D. L. Brown,R. S. Craxton,J. A. Delettrez,William R. Donaldson,Reuben Epstein,Paul A. Jaanimagi,S. D. Jacobs,K. Kearney,R. L. Keck,John H. Kelly,Terrance J. Kessler,Robert Kremens,J. P. Knauer,S. A. Kumpan,Samuel A. Letzring,D. J. Lonobile,S. J. Loucks,L. D. Lund,F. J. Marshall,P. W. McKenty,D. D. Meyerhofer,S. F. B. Morse,Andrey V. Okishev,Semyon Papernov,G. Pien,W. Seka,R. W. Short,Milton J. Shoup,Mark D. Skeldon,S. Skupsky,Ansgar W. Schmid,Douglas J. Smith,S. Swales,M. D. Wittman,B. Yaakobi +42 more
TL;DR: The OMEGA project at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) as discussed by the authors has achieved the highest thermonuclear yield (1014 DT neutrons) and yield efficienc...