Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

Chapter 1 Fusion Laser Development at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Chapter 2 Powerful 12-Channel Laser Installation “Delfin” for Spherical Heating of Thermonuclear Targets

Chapter 3 Advanced Laser Technology for Laser-Induced Fusion Applications

Chapter 4 Laser Damage Phenomenology in Materials

Chapter 5 Verdet Constants Near 450 nm in Ho 3+ Doped Soda Glass

Chapter 6 Prospects of the High Power Iodine Laser

Chapter 7 Terawatt Iodine Laser

Chapter 8 CO 2 Laser Systems for Fusion Experiments

Chapter 9 Recent Developments in High Power CO 2 Laser Mode-Locking and Pulse Selection

Chapter 10 CO 2 Laser-Plasma Interaction Studies At NRC-Canada

Chapter 11 Direct Nuclear Pumped Lasers — Status and Potential Applications

Chapter 12 Progress on X-Ray Laser Research

Chapter 13 On the Feasibility of Grasers

Chapter 14 Kinetics of Stimulated Emission in Neutron-Pumped Nuclear Laser Systems

Chapter 15 Nuclear Techniques for Directed Emission and Switched Operation of Grasers

Chapter 16 Possibility of Grasers using Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition

Chapter 17 Cryogenic Microshell Pellets and Other Advanced Targets for Laser Fusion

Chapter 18 Tritium Handling and the Preparation of DT-Containing Micro-Targets for Laser Fusion Experiments

Chapter 19 High-Temperature High-Quality Deuterium Plasma Production by Laser Beams and Interactions with Magnetic Fields

Chapter 20 The Production of Solid Hydrogen Isotope Pellets, their Interaction with Lasers, and the Problem of Filling Magnetic Confinement Configurations with Laser-Produced Plasmas

Chapter 21 The Physics of Laser-Plasma Interaction in Gaseous Targets

Chapter 22 The Broadening of the Lyman Lines in a Laser-Produced Plasma

Chapter 23 Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Laser-Produced Plasmas at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center

Chapter 24 Laser Fusion Experiments Using Spherical Shell Targets

Chapter 25 Plasma Experiments with 1.06-µm Lasers at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Chapter 26 Interaction of Powerful Laser Radiation With Shell Targets

Chapter 27 Laser Driven Implosion Experiments at Limeil

Chapter 28 Theory and Interpretation of Laser Compression Studies at the University of Rochester

Chapter 29 Experimental Studies of the Physics of Laser Fusion

Chapter 30 Initial Target Experiments with the Iodine Laser

Chapter 31 Thermonuclear Fusion Plasma by Lasers Coupling and Implosion