Targets meant to achieve ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)[JA Paisner, JD
Boyes, SA Kumpan, WH Lowdermilk, and MS Sorem, Laser Focus World 30, 75 (1994)]
have been redesigned and their performance simulated. Simulations indicate dramatically
reduced growth of short wavelength hydrodynamic instabilities, resulting from two changes
in the designs. First, better optimization results from systematic mapping of the ignition target
performance over the parameter space of ablator and fuel thickness combinations, using …