Frederick Osman

TL;DR: In this article, anomalous observations using the fast ignition for laser driven fusion energy are interpreted and experimental and theoretical results are reported which are in contrast to the very numerous effects usually observed at petawatt-picosecond laser interaction with plasmas.

TL;DR: In this paper, an absolute maximum of electron energy per laser interaction has been established, which depends on the accuracy of the used laser fields for which examples are presented and finally tested by the criterion of the absolute maximum.

TL;DR: In this article, the nonlinear dielectric function due to relativistic electron motion is derived and the importance of self-focusing in comparison with ponderomotive non-relativistic self-focus at very high laser intensities is estimated.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown how the now available PW-ps laser pulses may provide the very extreme conditions for generating the fusion flames in solid state density DT, under uniquely selected conditions to suppress relativistic self-focusing by high contrast ratio and to keep plane geometry interaction.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-branch reaction code is proposed for simultaneous fusion reactions of D-D, D-T D-He3 and mutual nuclear reaction products. But this code is not suitable for the case of tritium-rich cases.