Applications Of High Power Laser Radiation To Controlled Fusion

Moshe J. Lubin

doi:10.1117/12.946867

17 May 1969 Applications Of High Power Laser Radiation To Controlled Fusion

Moshe J. Lubin

Proceedings Volume 0020, Developments in Laser Technology I; (1969) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946867
Event: Developments in Laser Technology, 1969, Rochester, United States

Abstract

The application of high energy laser radiation to the problem of controlled thermonuclear fusion is discussed. Consideration of the radiation absorption process in a high temperature plasma, which serves as the working fluid for a fusion reactor, leads to an optimum laser power and pulse shape. Single laser pulse energies required approach 107 joules for a working reactor. A review of present high power experimental laser plasma work is presented, together with a series of concepts in which the method of laser ignition of a fusion reaction is applied to a stationary power plant and a spacecraft propulsion system.

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Moshe J. Lubin "Applications Of High Power Laser Radiation To Controlled Fusion", Proc. SPIE 0020, Developments in Laser Technology I, (17 May 1969); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946867

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