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Radiation dominated implosion with nano-plasmonics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2018

L.P. Csernai ,
N. Kroo  and
I. Papp
L.P. Csernai*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
N. Kroo
Affiliation:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
I. Papp
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
*
Author for correspondence: L.P. Csernai, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. E-mail: Laszlo.Csernai@uib.no
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Abstract

Inertial Confinement Fusion is a promising option to provide massive, clean, and affordable energy for mankind in the future. The present status of research and development is hindered by hydrodynamical instabilities occurring at the intense compression of the target fuel by energetic laser beams. A recent patent combines advances in two fields: Detonations in relativistic fluid dynamics (RFD) and radiative energy deposition by plasmonic nano-shells. The initial compression of the target pellet can be decreased, not to reach the Rayleigh–Taylor or other instabilities, and rapid volume ignition can be achieved by a final and more energetic laser pulse, which can be as short as the penetration time of the light across the pellet. The reflectivity of the target can be made negligible as in the present direct drive and indirect drive experiments, and the absorptivity can be increased by one or two orders of magnitude by plasmonic nano-shells embedded in the target fuel. Thus, higher ignition temperature and radiation dominated dynamics can be achieved with the limited initial compression. Here, we propose that a short final light pulse can heat the target so that most of the interior will reach the ignition temperature simultaneously based on the results of RFD. This makes the development of any kind of instability impossible, which would prevent complete ignition of the target.

Keywords

Inertial confinement fusionnano-shellsrelativistic fluid dynamicstime-like detonation

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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 2018 , pp. 171 - 178
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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