E. G. Dzenitis

TL;DR: Experiments at the National Ignition Facility indicate that the conditions are suitable for compressing deuterium-tritium–filled capsules, with the goal of achieving burning fusion plasmas and energy gain in the laboratory.

TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of ablator performance parameters, including the time-resolved radius, velocity, mass, and thickness, have been determined throughout the acceleration history of surrogate gas-filled implosions.

TL;DR: The first series of experiments of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) [E. I. Moses et al., Phys. Plasmas 16, 041006 (2009)] tested ignition Hohlraum “energetics,” a term described by four broad goals: (1) measurement of laser absorption by the Hohlraum; (2) measurements of the x-ray radiation flux (TRAD4) on the surrogate ignition capsule; (3) quantitative understanding of the laser absorption and resultant xray flux; and (4) determining whether

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the x-ray self-emission from imploding surrogates to ignition capsules (symcaps) to measure the symmetry of the implosion, and demonstrated the ability to transfer energy between laser beams in a gas-filled hohlraum using wavelength tuning.

TL;DR: The first inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments with equimolar deuterium-tritium thermonuclear fuel have been performed on the National Ignition Facility as mentioned in this paper.