Crossed beam energy transfer between optically smoothed laser beams in inhomogeneous plasmas

Journal article

A European consortium of 15 laboratories across nine nations have worked together under the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants for the past decade with three principle objectives. These are: (a) investigating obstacles to ignition on megaJoule-class laser facilities; (b) investigating novel alternative approaches to ignition, including basic studies for fast ignition (both electron and ion-driven), auxiliary heating, shock ignition etc.; and (c) developing technologies that will be required in the future for a fusion reactor. The Hooke discussion meeting in March 2020 provided an opportunity to reflect on the progress made in inertial confinement fusion research world-wide to date. This first edition of two special issues seeks to identify paths forward to achieve high fusion energy gain. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 1)'

Authors: Hüller, S; Raj, G; Luo, M; Rozmus, W; Pesme, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: The Royal Society
• Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Volume: 378
• Issue: 2184
• Pages: 20200038-20200038
• Publication date: 2020-10-12
• DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0038
• EISSN: 1471-2962
• ISSN: 1364-503X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Physics; Optics; Energy (signal processing); Laser; Atomic physics; Beam (structure); Quantum mechanics; Laser beams; Materials science; Computational physics; Plasma; Energy transfer