Siegfried Glenzer

TL;DR: In this paper, non-burning thermonuclear fuel implosion experiments have been fielded on the National Ignition Facility to assess progress toward ignition by indirect drive inertial confinement fusion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out precision optimization of inertial confinement fusion ignition scale implosions and achieved hohlraum temperatures in excess of the 300 eV ignition goal with hot-spot symmetry and shock timing near ignition specs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the conversion efficiency of the laser-produced chlorine Ly-α and K-α line radiation for collective X-ray scattering from dense plasmas and found no red wing emission features for ultra-short pulse laser produced K- α radiation.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that multiple-ion-species plasmas greatly reduce stimulated Brillouin scattering in high-electron temperature inertial confinement fusion hohlraum using a 3D laser-plasma interaction code.

TL;DR: In this article, a 100TW, high-intensity short-pulse laser was used to heat dense titanium plasma to an electron temperature up to 1300eV with a high intensity short pulse laser, and the experiments were conducted using Ti foils (5μm thick) sandwiched between layers of either aluminum (1 or 2μm) or plastic (2μm thickness) to prevent the effects of prepulse targets.