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High-compression implosions based on high density carbon ablator using modified drive and capsule dopant profiles Open

R. Tommasini, D. T. Casey, D. S. Clark, A. Do, K. L. Baker , et al. · 2025

Laser-driven inertial fusion experiments have, for the first time, achieved a target gain greater than unity in a laboratory setting [Abu-Shawareb et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 (2024)]. Despite this breakthrough, the burn-up fractio…

Present understanding of ignition and gain using indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion target designs on the U.S. National Ignition Facility Open

O. A. Hurricane, A. Allen, B. Bachmann, K. L. Baker, Salmaan H. Baxamusa , et al. · 2024

For many decades, the running joke in fusion research has been that ‘fusion’ is thirty years away and always will be. Yet, these past few years we find ourselves in a position where we can now talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, …

Frustraum 1100 experimental campaign on the national ignition facility Open

K. L. Baker, P. A. Amendt, D. Mariscal, H. Sio, O. L. Landen , et al. · 2024

Diagnosing inertial confinement fusion ignition Open

A. S. Moore, L. Divol, B. Bachmann, R. M. Bionta, D. K. Bradley , et al. · 2024

Fusion ignition by inertial confinement requires compression and heating of the fusion fuel to temperatures in excess of 5 keV and densities exceeding hundreds of g/cc. In August 2021, this scientific milestone was surpassed at the Nationa…

Effects of drive pulse shape on graded metal pushered single shell capsule implosions on the National Ignition Facility Open

E. L. Dewald, S. A. MacLaren, D. Ho, D. Martinez, Jesse Pino , et al. · 2024

Graded metal pushered single shells (PSS) are a viable alternative to low-Z capsules (Z is the atomic number) for indirect drive inertial confinement fusion implosions due to enhanced core tamping and radiation trapping, but they can be co…

The inviscid incompressible limit of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability for plasmas Open

Antoine Briard, Jean‐François Ripoll, A. Michael, Benoît-Joseph Gréa, G. Peyrichon , et al. · 2024

Introduction: The Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability (KHI) is an interface instability that develops between two fluids or plasmas flowing with a common shear layer. KHI occurs in astrophysical jets, solar atmosphere, solar flows, cometary tails…

Frustraum 1100 Experimental Campaign on the National Ignition Facility Open

K. L. Baker, P. A. Amendt, D. Mariscal, H. Sio, O. L. Landen , et al. · 2024

Indirect drive Frustraum experiments on the National Ignition Facility to improve efficiency, increase capsule scale and coupled energy Open

K. L. Baker, P. A. Amendt, D. Mariscal, D. Ho, Jeffrey S. Ross , et al. · 2023

Measuring and simulating ice–ablator mix in inertial confinement fusion Open

B. Bachmann, S. A. MacLaren, L. Massé, S. D. Bhandarkar, T. M. Briggs , et al. · 2023

Fuel–ablator mix has been established as a major performance degrading effect in the burning plasma regime of recent inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments. As such, the study of fuel–ablator mix with experiments and simulations can…

Publisher's Note: “First graded metal pushered single shell capsule implosions on the National Ignition Facility” [Phys. Plasmas <b>29</b>, 052707 (2022)] Open

E. L. Dewald, S. A. MacLaren, D. Martinez, Jesse Pino, Robert Tipton , et al. · 2023

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REACHING 30% ENERGY COUPLING EFFICIENCY FOR A HIGH-DENSITY-CARBON CAPSULE IN A GOLD RUGBY HOHLRAUM ON NIF Open

Y. Ping, P. A. Amendt, K. L. Baker, V. A. Smalyuk, H Chen , et al. · 2021

Measurement of the neutron spectrum from the T(t,2n) reaction with the National Ignition Facility Open

D. B. Sayre, C. R. Brune, J. A. Caggiano, V. Yu. Glebov, R. Hatarik , et al. · 2021

M-ARIANE, an x-ray imaging system for implosion experiments on National Ignition Facility at ignition neutron yields Open

V. A. Smalyuk, J. Ayers, P. M. Bell, Robin Benedetti, D. K. Bradley , et al. · 2021

Post-processing of face-on radiographic images for quantitative analysis in ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments Open

L. Ceurvorst, S. F. Khan, C. Mailliet, D. Martinez, N. Izumi , et al. · 2021

First M-band preheat asymmetry measurement at the capsule in ICF hohlraums via Mo ball fluorescence imaging Open

E. L. Dewald, O. L. Landen, J. D. Salmonson, L. Massé, M. Tabak , et al. · 2020

Symmetry tuning and high energy coupling for an Al capsule in a Au rugby hohlraum on NIF Open

Y. Ping, V. A. Smalyuk, Peter Amendt, S. F. Khan, R. Tommasini , et al. · 2020

Experiments on imploding an Al capsule in a Au rugby hohlraum with up to a 1.5 MJ laser drive were performed on the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The capsule diameter was 3.0 mm with ∼1 MJ drive and 3.4 mm with ∼1.5 MJ drive. Effective…

Post-processing of face-on radiographic images for quantitative analysis in ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments Open

L. Ceurvorst, S. F. Khan, C. Mailliet, D. Martinez, N. Izumi , et al. · 2020

Recent and planned hydrodynamic instability experiments on indirect-drive implosions on the National Ignition Facility Open

V. A. Smalyuk, C. R. Weber, O. L. Landen, S. J. Ali, B. Bachmann , et al. · 2020

Yield and compression trends and reproducibility at NIF* Open

O. L. Landen, D. T. Casey, J. M. Di-Nicola, T. Doeppner, E. P. Hartouni , et al. · 2020

Demonstration of high energy coupling and symmetry tuning of an Al capsule in a rugby hohlraum on NIF Open

Y. Ping, V. A. Smalyuk, P. A. Amendt, S. F. Khan, R. Tommasini , et al. · 2020

Long-duration direct drive hydrodynamics experiments on the National Ignition Facility: Platform development and numerical modeling with CHIC Open

C. Mailliet, E. Le Bel, L. Ceurvorst, S. F. Khan, D. Martinez , et al. · 2019

We report on a novel planar direct-drive platform for hydrodynamics experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF). Its commissioning has been performed as part of the NIF Discovery Science Program. This platform enables the use of a …

Enhanced energy coupling for indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion Open

Y. Ping, V. A. Smalyuk, Peter Amendt, R. Tommasini, J. E. Field , et al. · 2018

Review of hydro-instability experiments with alternate capsule supports in indirect-drive implosions on the National Ignition Facility Open

V. A. Smalyuk, H. F. Robey, C. L. Alday, Peter Amendt, Chantel Aracne-Ruddle , et al. · 2018

Hydrodynamic instability growth of capsule support membranes (or “tents”) has been recognized as one of the major contributors to the performance degradation in high-compression plastic capsule implosions at the National Ignition Facility …

Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in high-energy density settings on the National Ignition Facility Open

B. A. Remington, Hyesook Park, D. T. Casey, R. M. Cavallo, D. S. Clark , et al. · 2018

The Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instability occurs at an interface between two fluids of differing density during an acceleration. These instabilities can occur in very diverse settings, from inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions over spat…

Mitigation of X-ray shadow seeding of hydrodynamic instabilities on inertial confinement fusion capsules using a reduced diameter fuel fill-tube Open

A. G. MacPhee, V. A. Smalyuk, O. L. Landen, C. R. Weber, H. F. Robey , et al. · 2018

We report a reduced X-ray shadow imprint of hydrodynamic instabilities on the high-density carbon ablator surface of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsules using a reduced diameter fuel fill tube on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)…

Capsule Shimming Developments for National Ignition Facility (NIF) Hohlraum Asymmetry Experiments Open

N. Rice, M. Vu, C. Kong, M. Mauldin, A. Tambazidis , et al. · 2017

Capsule drive in National Ignition Facility (NIF) indirect drive implosions is generated by x-ray illumination from cylindrical hohlraums. The cylindrical hohlraum geometry is axially symmetric but not spherically symmetric causing capsule…

Measurement of ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov evolution from laser imprint Open

D. Martinez, V. A. Smalyuk, I. V. Igumenshchev, B. Delorme, A. Casner , et al. · 2017

Experiments were performed to investigate the ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability in plastic (CH2) foils. The two-dimensional (2-D) perturbations were created by laser imprinting using a special phase plate with a 2-D single mode, …

Thermonuclear reactions probed at stellar-core conditions with laser-based inertial-confinement fusion Open

D. T. Casey, D. B. Sayre, C. R. Brune, V. A. Smalyuk, C. R. Weber , et al. · 2017

Publisher's Note: X-ray shadow imprint of hydrodynamic instabilities on the surface of inertial confinement fusion capsules by the fuel fill tube [Phys. Rev. E 95, 031204(R) (2017)] Open

A. G. MacPhee, D. T. Casey, D. S. Clark, S. Felker, J. E. Field , et al. · 2017

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.031204.

Mix and hydrodynamic instabilities on NIF Open

V. A. Smalyuk, H. F. Robey, D. T. Casey, D. S. Clark, T. Döppner , et al. · 2017

Several new platforms have been developed to experimentally measure hydrodynamic instabilities in all phases of indirect-drive, inertial confinement fusion implosions on National Ignition Facility. At the ablation front, instability growth…

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