Recent progress of implosion experiments with uniformity‐improved GEKKO XII laser facility at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2077-2083

  Mima, K ^a   Kato, Y ^a   Azechi, H ^a   Shigemori, K ^a   Takabe, H ^a   Miyanaga, N ^a   Kanabe, T ^a   Norimatsu, T ^a   Nishimura, H ^a   Shiraga, H ^a   Nakai, M ^a   Kodama, R ^a   Tanaka, K A ^a   Takagi, M ^a   Natatsuka, M ^a   Nishihara, K ^a   Yamanaka, T ^a   Nakai, S ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GEKKO FACILITY; ICF DEVICES; IMPLOSIONS; INSTABILITY GROWTH RATES; LASER FUSION REACTORS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMA; LASER RADIATION HEATING; NEUTRONS; PLASMA SIMULATION; RAYLEIGH TAYLOR INSTABILITY; THERMONUCLEAR IGNITION

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001489368     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872005     Document Type: Article

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