Polar direct drive on the national ignition facility

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 5 PART 2, 2004, Pages 2763-2770

  Skupsky, S ^a   Marozas, J A ^a   Craxton, R S ^a   Betti, R ^a   Collins, T J B ^a   Delettrez, J A ^a   Goncharov, V N ^a   McKenty, P W ^a   Radha, P B ^a   Boehly, T R ^a   Knauer, J P ^a   Marshall, F J ^a   Harding, D R ^a   Kilkenny, J D ^a,b   Meyerhofer, D D ^a   Sangster, T C ^a   McCrory, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIADAT SHAPING; HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY; LASER ABSORPTION; POLAR DIRECT DRIVES (PDD);

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERMI LEVEL; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMAS; X RAYS;

IGNITION;

EID: 2942547683     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1689665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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