Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

Lecture in Connection with the Edward Teller Medal Award.- Laser Fusion Research in 30 Years.- New Basic Physics Derived from Laser Plasma Interaction.- Edward Teller Medal: Acceptance Remarks.- Comments on the History and Prospects for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Demonstration of a Nuclear Flashlamp-Pumped Atomic Iodine Laser.- A Comparison of Electrical, Fusion-Generated-Ion, and Fission-Generated-Ion ICF Drivers.- Computation of the Compression of Frequency Modulated Pulses in Linear Dispersive Media Using a Time-Domain Method: Examples.- Tending to Saturated Gain of Soft X-Ray Laser at 23.2 and 23.6 nm.- Progress in ICF and X-Ray Laser Experiments at CAEP.- Decrease of Radiation Trapping in a Laser-Produced Plasma with Volume-Reducing Deviations from Cylindrical Geometry.- X-Ray Optics of Arrays of Reflective Surfaces.- Scaling Law for the Temperature and Energy of X-Ray in Laser Cavity Targets and in Comparison with Experimental Measurements.- X-Ray Lasing in a Muon Catalyzed Fusion System.- Status and Issues in the Development of a Gamma-Ray Laser.- Generation of Magnetic Field by Circularly Polarized Light and Thermomagnetic Instability in a Laser Plasma.- Laser Driven Plasma Instabilities at Moderate Laser Irradiances.- Pulsation and Stuttering of Laser Interaction with Plasmas and Its Suppression by Smoothing.- Distributed Absorption and Inhibited Heat Transport.- Two-Dimensional Calculation of Electromagnetic Pulse Generation by Laser-Initiated Air Avalanche Switches.- Two-Dimensional Calculation of High-Power Microwave Bandwidth Broadening by Laser-Induced Air Breakdown.- Partially Coherent Light for Improving Irradiation Uniformity in Directly Driven Laser Fusion Experiments.- Time-Resolved Measurements of Plasma Conditions and Gradients in Radiatively-Heated Foils.- A Survey of Ion Acoustic Decay Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasma.- Convective Gain of Parametric Instabilities: An Experimentalist’s Viewpoint.- The Nova Upgrade Facility for ICF Ignition and Gain.- Advancement of Inertial Fusion Research.- Volume Ignition for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Comments about Neutron Feedback NPL Driven ICF.- Diamond Photovoltaic Cells as a First Wall Material and Energy Conversion System for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Advanced Energy for Greenhouse Effect.- Panel on Fusion as a Solution for the Greenhouse Effect or Global Warming, and, to Help Further That Goal, Inertial Fusion Targets for Deeply Penetrating Beams.- Laser Fusion — High Density Compression Experiment and Ignition Program with GEKKO XII.- Interaction Physics for Megajoule Laser Fusion Targets.- Experimental Studies of Implosion of Indirectly Driven DT-Filled Targets.- Laser Plasma Interaction Studies Relevant for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- ICF Physics and Numerical Simulation at DENIM.- Numerical Simulations and Numerical Analysis of Reactor-Size Indirectly Driven Inertial Fusion Target Implosions.- Ion Beam Coupling and Target Physics Experiments at Sandia National Laboratories.- Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Measurement of Ablation Plasma Produced by Intense Pulsed Ion Beam.- Focusing and Propagation of Proton Beam.- Focusing and Transportation of Intense Light Ion Beam in Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Symmetry Analysis of Perturbed Ion Beam-Target Interactions.- Acceleration of Electrons by Lasers in Vacuum.- Thomas-Fermi Like and Average Atom Model Equations of State for Highly Compressed Matter at Any Temperature.- Laser Induced Shock Waves and Dynamic Damage.- Hot Plasma Model for Cluster Impact Fusion.- Ion Cluster Stopping in Cold Targets forICF.- Attendees.- Author Index.