Laser Fusion

Abstract

The progress of laser fusion is remarkable approaching to the breakeven condition, in which the fusiongenerated energy is compalable to the incident laser energy onto the fuel pellet.
The investigation on the absption of laser light, energy transport, ablation and impiosion hydrodynamicsof a pellet are proceeded leading to the accumulation of the date bases which are necessary for the scalingto the fusion ignition and breakeven. The recent results of the neutron generation of 10¹³ per shot and the pelletgain of O.2% by LHART demonstrate the feasibility to achieve the ignition condition with 100kJ blue laser.