The direct-drive, laser-based approach to inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is reviewed from
its inception following the demonstration of the first laser to its implementation on the present …

Techniques have been developed to improve the uniformity of the laser focal profile, to
reduce the ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability, and to suppress the various laser–plasma …

The physics of laser-plasma interaction is studied on the Shenguang III prototype laser
facility under conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion designs. A sub-millimeter-size …

A theoretical framework to study linear and nonlinear Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) is
presented. This instability typically develops when an incident shock crosses a corrugated …

This Letter presents first experimental results of the laser imprint reduction in fusion scale
plasmas using a low-density foam layer. The experiments were conducted on the LIL facility …

The results from a series of single-mode, Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instability growth
experiments performed on the OMEGA laser system TR Boehly et al., Opt. Commun. 133 …

Propagation of laser-supported ionization wave in homogeneous and porous materials with
a mean density less than the critical plasma density is studied theoretically in the one …

We present a subgrid model for laser propagation in a subcritical foam. Our model describes
the expansion of laser-irradiated foam elements that are below the resolution of the …

The transport of an intense electron-beam produced by the Vulcan petawatt laser through
dense plasmas has been studied by imaging with high resolution the optical emission due to …

Experimental results and simulations that study the effects of thin metallic layers with high
atomic number (high-Z) on the hydrodynamics of laser accelerated plastic targets are …