Photons & Fusion — 2010

Photons & Fusion is a monthly review of National Ignition Facility & Photon Science science and technology. For more information , submit a question.

December html

National Committee Studies Fusion Power Potential
Liquid Carbon Study May Shed Light on Giant Planets
Fusion Power Associates Honors NIF's Chris Keane

November html

Optimizing NIF Laser-Hohlraum Coupling
New Nuclear Physics for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Hye-Sook Park Elected APS Fellow

October html

NIF Receives "Project of the Year" Award
Convergent Ablator Performance Measurements
Radiation Hardening of NIF Gated X-ray Imagers
NIF Target Diagnostic Control System
NIF Is Well Represented at IAEA Fusion Conference

September html

Predicting Ignition Implosion Performance
Updates on Ultra-High Intensity Lasers Presented
Design of a Rayleigh-Taylor Experiment to Measure Strength at High Pressures
Using Statistical Gamma-ray Spectra to Measure Astrophysical Neutron Capture

August html

A Test Cassette for NIF X-ray Exposure Experiments
NIF and PS Research Highlighted at SPIE Meeting
Silver K-alpha and bremsstrahlung radiation from short-pulse laser-matter interactions

July html

Initial Performance of the T-REX Gamma-Ray Source
Measuring Laser-Generated Positron Jets

June html

An Energy Record for Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Modeling Laser-Plasma Interactions
Precision Engineering for NIF and NIC

May html

NIC and LIFE Research Highlighted at CLEO/QELS
Studies Shed Light on White Dwarf Stars
Plastic Ablator Ignition Capsule Design for NIF

April html

A Mechanism for Taming Hydrodynamic Instability
Picosecond Recording with LLNL's SLIDER Camera

March html

Results of NIC Hohlraum Energetics Campaign
NIF's 'Extraordinary Tour de Force'
Laser-plasma Interactions in NIF Ignition Hohlraums
NIF Capsule Performance Optimization
Fusion Energy: A Grand Engineering Challenge

February html

NIF and Lasers Highlighted at AAAS Annual Meeting
Limitation on Prepulse Level for Fast-Ignition ICF
Design of NIF Cryogenic Targets
Charged Particles and Cherenkov Radiation
Members of OSA Student Chapters Visit NIF

January html

Initial NIF Experiments Show Promise for Ignition
Effects of non-linear Raman amplification on laser power and energy coupling to fusion targets
Prospects for Laser Shocking of Materials at NIF
Charged-Particle Probing of X-ray Driven Inertial Fusion Implosions
Techniques for Diagnosing Preheating in NIF Targets