Neutron production from a shell-confined carbon-deuterium plasma by 1.06 μm laser irradiation
- 28 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 51 (26) , 2195-2196
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.98937
Abstract
We demonstrate for the first time the production of more than 108 neutrons per shot from a carbon‐deuterium plasma confined in a 100‐μm‐thick gold shell without an implosion using six beams from a GEKKO XII glass laser system at a laser wavelength of 1.06 μm. The equivalent neutron of the deuterium‐tritium reaction is estimated to be 1010–1011.Keywords
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