Jose Milovich

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the achievement of fusion fuel gains exceeding unity on the US National Ignition Facility using a high-foot implosion method, which is a manipulation of the laser pulse shape in a way that reduces instability in the implosion.

TL;DR: Miller et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a point design for the initial ignition campaign on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) using D-T fusion fuel in an ablator of either CH with Ge doping, or Be with Cu.

TL;DR: In this paper, a low-Z capsule filled with deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel via laser indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion and demonstrate fusion ignition and propagating thermonuclear burn with a net energy gain of ∼5-10 (fusion yield/input laser energy).

TL;DR: Time dependent low mode asymmetries that limited further progress of implosions have now been controlled, leading to an increased compression of the hot spot, resulting in hot spot areal density and stagnation pressure never before achieved in a laboratory experiment.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors achieved a burning-plasma state in the laboratory using a strategy to increase the spatial scale of the capsule through two different implosion concepts and showed that fusion self-heating in excess of the mechanical work injected into the implosions, satisfying several burningplasma metrics.