• DocumentCode
    1983029
  • Title

    Ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks from direct converting laser energy into motion by nonlinear forces

  • Author

    Hora, Heinrich ; Miley, George H. ; Lalousis, Paraskevas ; Flippo, Kirk ; Gailard, Sandrine A. ; Offermann, Dustin ; Fernandez, Juan ; Yang, Xiaoling ; Murakami, Masakatsu ; Castillo, Reynaldo ; Stait-Gardner, Timothy ; Le Cornu, Brent ; Pozo, Julio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Theor. Phys., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    Aug. 28 2011-Sept. 1 2011
  • Firstpage
    878
  • Lastpage
    880
  • Abstract
    In contrast to thermal pressure, 100,000 times higher acceleration of plasma blocks was predicted and measured by using nonlinear (ponderomotive) forces. This permits side-on ignition of uncompressed solid fusion fuel deuterium-tritium and hydrogen-boron 11.
  • Keywords
    boron; deuterium; fusion reactor fuel; hydrogen; laser fusion; plasma accelerators; tritium; deuterium-tritium; hydrogen-boron; nonlinear ponderomotive forces; plasma block acceleration; solid fusion fuel; Acceleration; Force; Laser beams; Laser fusion; Laser theory; Plasmas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference & Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/IQEC/PACIFIC RIM), 2011
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1939-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193630
  • Filename
    6193630
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1983029