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
fDate :
Aug. 28 2011-Sept. 1 2011
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193630
