Review of field-reversed configurations

LC Steinhauer - Physics of Plasmas, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
This review addresses field-reversed configurations (FRCs), which are compact-toroidal
magnetic systems with little or no toroidal field and very high β (ratio of plasma pressure to …

Dynamic Formation of a Hot Field Reversed Configuration with Improved Confinement <?format ?>by Supersonic Merging of Two Colliding High- Compact Toroids

MW Binderbauer, HY Guo, M Tuszewski, S Putvinski… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
A hot stable field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the C-2 experiment by
colliding and merging two high-β plasmoids preformed by the dynamic version of field …

Retrospective of the ARPA-E ALPHA fusion program

CL Nehl, RJ Umstattd, WR Regan, SC Hsu… - Journal of Fusion …, 2019 - Springer
This paper provides a retrospective of the Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and
Assembly (ALPHA) fusion program of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy …

Formation of a long-lived hot field reversed configuration by dynamically merging two colliding high-β compact toroids

HY Guo, MW Binderbauer, D Barnes, S Putvinski… - Physics of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
A high temperature field reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the newly built,
world's largest compact toroid (CT) facility, C-2, by colliding and merging two high-β CTs …

Systems and methods for forming and maintaining a high performance FRC

MW Binderbauer, E Garate, S Putvinski… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central
confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections …

Grating-assisted phase matching in extreme nonlinear optics

O Cohen, X Zhang, AL Lytle, T Popmintchev… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
We propose a new technique for phase matching high harmonic generation that can be
used for generating bright, tabletop, tunable, and coherent x-ray sources at keV photon …

A direct fusion drive for rocket propulsion

YS Razin, G Pajer, M Breton, E Ham, J Mueller… - Acta Astronautica, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Direct Fusion Drive (DFD), a compact, anuetronic fusion engine, will enable
more challenging exploration missions in the solar system. The engine proposed here uses …

Systems and methods for forming and maintaining a high performance FRC

M Tuszewski, MW Binderbauer, S Putvinski… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central
confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections …

Systems and methods for forming and maintaining a high performance FRC

M Tuszewski, M Binderbauer, D Barnes… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods that facilitate the formation and maintenance of new High
Performance Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs). An FRC system for the High …

Modeling of hydrogen ground state rotational and vibrational temperatures in kinetic plasmas

DR Farley, DP Stotler, DP Lundberg… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2011 - Elsevier
A dipole-quadrupole electron-impact excitation model, consistent with molecular symmetry
rules, is presented to fit ro-vibronic spectra of the hydrogen Fulcher-α Q-branch line …