Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena: Volume 9

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
U.S. Inertial Confinement Fusion Program Experiments: Results & Implications....Pages 1-10
Status of Inertial Confinement Fusion Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory....Pages 11-23
High Density Compression of Hollow-Shell Target by Gekko XII and Laser Fusion Research at Ile, Osaka University....Pages 25-67
Status of Experimental Investigations of ICF and X-Ray Lasers in SINPC....Pages 69-81
Investigations into X-Ray Damage to the First Wall of the Inertial Confinement Fusion Laboratory Microfusion Facility....Pages 83-94
Leading Role of Laser Fusion and Its Advances by Volume Ignition and by Pulsationfree Direct Drive....Pages 95-123
Laser Induced Transitions in Muon Catalyzed Fusion....Pages 125-135
Light Ion Beam Drivers for Inertial Confinement Fusion....Pages 137-148
Development of High Power KrF Laser for ICF Laser Driver and Laser Interaction Experiments....Pages 149-160
The Gamma-Ray Laser — Status and Issues in 1989....Pages 161-170
Modelling of Intense Line Radiation from Laser-Produced Plasmas....Pages 171-184
Observation of Gain on XUV Transitions in Ne-Like and Li-Like Ions....Pages 185-196
Nuclear-Driven Solid-State Lasers for Inertial Confinement Fusion....Pages 197-210
Lasing Without Inversion....Pages 211-219
Ion Acoustic Parametric Decay Instabilities in Laser-Plasma Interactions....Pages 221-231
Spectral and Temporal Properties of 1ω o , 2ω o and 3/2ω o Emission from Laser-Produced Plasmas....Pages 233-244
A survey of Raman spectra from laser-produced plasmas....Pages 245-259
Experimental Study of Beam-Plasma Instabilities in Long Scalelength Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 261-272
Analysis of 2ω and 3ω/2 Spectra from Plasmas Produced by Irradiation of Thin Foil Targets....Pages 273-285
Nonstationary Stimulated Brillouin Backscattering in Inhomogeneous Density Profiles....Pages 287-295
Turbulence in Very-High Mach Number, Laser-Accelerated Material....Pages 297-311
Electron Motion in Plasma Irradiated by Strong Laser Light....Pages 313-321
Early-Time “Shine-Through” in Laser Irradiated Targets....Pages 323-334
Laser Induced Breakdown and High Voltage Induced Vacuum Breakdown on Metal Surfaces....Pages 335-357
New Basic Theory from Laser-Plasma Double Layers: Generalization to Degenerate Electrons and Nuclei....Pages 359-387
Caviton Generation with Two-Temperature Equation-of-State Effects in Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 389-400
Radiation Damage in Single Crystal CsI(T1) and Polycrystal CsI....Pages 401-409
Active Beam-Control and Active Laser-Diagnostic of Intense Pulsed Ion Sources....Pages 411-422
Saturable Magnetics for Laser and Plasma Interactions....Pages 423-434
Nuclear Driven UV Fluorescence for Stimulation of the Atomic Iodine Laser....Pages 435-444
A Highly Reflecting Microwave Plasma Mirror....Pages 445-457
Particle acceleration with the axial electric field of a TEM10 mode laser beam....Pages 459-466
Acceleration of Electrons to TeV Energy by Lasers in Vacuum....Pages 467-493
A Review of Back Lighted Thyratron Physics and Applications....Pages 495-513
Two-Dimensional Calculation of Sequential Electron Layer Formation by Crossed Microwave Beams in Air at Low Pressure....Pages 515-524
Shock Wave Decay and Spallation in Laser-Matter Interaction....Pages 525-534
High-Gain Direct-Drive Target Design for ICF....Pages 535-544
Adiabatic Compression of Fuel in ICF Target....Pages 545-551
X-Ray Conversion in High Gain Radiation Drive ICF....Pages 553-564
Implosion Characteristics of Radiation-Driven High Gain Laser Fusion....Pages 565-582
Fission-Induced Inertial Confinement Hot Fusion and Cold Fusion with Electrolysis....Pages 583-592
Ion Beam-Plasma Interaction for Particle Driven Fusion....Pages 593-602
Tight Focusing of Proton Beam and Its Interaction with Targets....Pages 603-614
Theoretical Analysis of Charge Neutralization of the Intense Light Ion Beam....Pages 615-622
An Implicit Fluid-Particle Model for Ion Beam-Plasma Interactions....Pages 623-642
Back Matter....Pages 643-653