Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena: Volume 6

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Novette, a Short Wavelength Laser-Target Interaction System....Pages 1-19
The Antares Facility for Inertial Fusion Experiments — Status and Plans....Pages 21-32
Interhalogen Lasers....Pages 33-45
Review of Nuclear Pumped Lasers....Pages 47-72
Nuclear Pumped Lasers Utilizing Radiant Transfer....Pages 73-85
Generation of Vacuum Ultraviolet and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation by Nonlinear Processes with Excimer Lasers....Pages 87-98
Resonantly-Pumped Soft X-Ray Lasers Using ICF Drivers....Pages 99-106
Multistep Pumping Schemes for Short-Wave Lasers....Pages 107-125
Development of a High Power Glass Laser System and Research of X-Ray Generation....Pages 127-148
Applications of X-Rays from Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 149-164
A Glow Discharge Laser Amplifier and Its Relation to the Effect of Quantum Modulation of Electron Beams by Lasers....Pages 165-179
A Look at the Free Electron Laser and Its Potential....Pages 181-192
High Intensity Free Electron Lasers for Inertial Confinement Fusion....Pages 193-200
The Lateral Injection Free Electron Laser: Momentum Balance and Axial Shift of Electrons....Pages 201-208
Laser Interaction and Compression Studies at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory....Pages 209-233
Laser-Plasma Interaction Experiments and Diagnostics at NRL....Pages 235-252
ICF Diagnostics....Pages 253-262
Fusion Product Energy Loss Measurements....Pages 263-282
The Study of Plasma Turbulence by the Method of Combination Scattering....Pages 283-298
X-Ray Shadowgraphy Studies in Laser Implosion Experiments....Pages 299-316
New Measurement Techniques Using Tracers Within Laser-Produced Plasmas....Pages 317-334
Laser Induced Unipolar Arcing....Pages 335-352
Investigation of Highly Ionized Plasma Plumes Generated by CO 2 Laser Irradiation of Solid Targets in Strong Axial Magnetic Fields....Pages 353-367
Laser Pellet Plasmas for Filling Magnetic Confinement Configurations....Pages 369-378
Atomic Physics in Inertial Fusion....Pages 379-393
Hypothesis for the Quantization of Electrodynamic Parameters in Plasmas Applied to the Equations of Motion....Pages 395-400
High Harmonic Generation in High Power Lasers....Pages 401-415
Review of Recent Experimental and Theoretical Laser-Plasma Research Carried Out at Soreq....Pages 417-436
Absorption, Double Layers, and Dynamics at Laser-Plasma Interaction and Pellet Fusion Gains With Reheat....Pages 437-459
The State of Ultra-High Intensity Laser Plasma Interaction Research in Australia....Pages 461-477
Suprathermal Electron Generation Transport and Deposition in CO 2 Laser Irradiated Targets....Pages 479-492
Hot Electron Production by Raman Scattering in a Preformed Underdense Plasma....Pages 493-506
Scaling of Laser-Plasma Interactions with Laser Wavelength and Plasma Size....Pages 507-526
High Frequency Instabilities in Underdense Plasmas Produced by a 0.35 µm Laser Beam....Pages 527-543
Observations of Parametric Instabilities in Long Scalelength Plasmas....Pages 545-560
Recent Advances in Microwave Simulation of Laser-Plasma Interactions....Pages 561-576
Self-Consistent Electron Density Profiles in Short Pulse, 1.054 µm Laser-Heated Plasmas....Pages 577-597
Raman and Brillouin Scattering, Classical Reflection, and Relativity....Pages 599-604
Saturation of Stimulated Brillouin Backscatter....Pages 605-619
Space and Time Evolution of SBS Ion Waves and Harmonics....Pages 621-631
Filamentation Instability in Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 633-663
Critical Elements of High Gain: An Update....Pages 665-672
Analysis of Stability and Symmetry Implications for ICF....Pages 673-691
Direct Illumination Spherical Target Experiments....Pages 693-708
Investigation of Hydrodynamic Stability of High Aspect Ratio Targets in Laser Implosion Experiments....Pages 709-730
Thermal Transport Measurements in 1.05 µm Laser Irradiation of Spherical Targets....Pages 731-750
Uniformity of Energy Deposition for Laser Driven Fusion....Pages 751-774
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and Resulting Failure Modes of Ablatively Imploded Inertial Fusion Targets....Pages 775-795
High Density Transition Laser Driven Implosions....Pages 797-815
X-Ray Emission Experiments at 1.06 µm and 0.35 µm....Pages 817-837
Laser Implosion Fusion Experiments at Ile Osaka....Pages 839-855
Theoretical and Computational Investigation on Implosion Process....Pages 857-868
Recent Studies in Electron Transport and Laser Interaction at INRS-ENERGIE....Pages 869-891
Instability and Chaos in Some Non-Linear Laser Interaction Mechanisms....Pages 893-901
Progress toward Direct Drive Laser Fusion....Pages 903-925
Historical Remarks on Beam Fusion....Pages 927-935
Advances in ICF Using Light Ion Beams....Pages 937-956
Status of Light Ion Inertial Fusion Research at NRL....Pages 957-979
Inertial Confinement Fusion by Light Ion Beam....Pages 981-995
Space — Time Focused Light Plasma Beams for ICF Fusion....Pages 997-1011
Ion Beam Interactions with ICF Targets....Pages 1013-1027
Ions Stopping in ICF Plasmas....Pages 1029-1048
ICF Reactor Using a 3 He-Aflint Tritium Self-Sufficient Target....Pages 1049-1059
Conceptual Design of ICF Reactor Senri, Part II Advances in Design and Pellet Gain Scaling....Pages 1061-1081
Electron (and Positron) Acceleration with Lasers....Pages 1083-1091
High Energy Particle Acceleration by a Laser Beatwave....Pages 1093-1110
GeV IONS from Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 1111-1128
Relativistic Electromagnetic Waves in an Electron-Ion Plasma....Pages 1129-1142
Back Matter....Pages 1143-1161