George B. Zimmerman

TL;DR: In this article, an implosion system energized by a high energy laser was proposed to compress hydrogen to more than 10,000 times liquid density by an imploding system, which makes possible efficient thermonuclear burn of small pellets of heavy hydrogen isotopes, and makes feasible fusion power reactors using practical lasers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the targets, the modeling that was used to design them, and the modeling done to set specifications for the laser system in the proposed National Ignition Facility.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors achieved a burning-plasma state in the laboratory using a strategy to increase the spatial scale of the capsule through two different implosion concepts and showed that fusion self-heating in excess of the mechanical work injected into the implosions, satisfying several burningplasma metrics.

TL;DR: The High Flux Model (HFM) as discussed by the authors was used in the National Ignition Campaign (NIC) gas-filled/capsule-imploding hohlraum energetics campaign.

TL;DR: A high Mach number, radiatively cooled jet of astrophysical interest has been produced using intense laser irradiation of a gold cone as discussed by the authors, and the evolution of the jet was imaged in emission and in radiography, and the temperature was measured with Thomson scattering.