The extremely high power achievable with lasers offers the possibility of producing fusion in laser heated and inertially confined pellets of thermonuclear fuel. Special techniques of laser pulse forming properly matched to pellet size allow energy multiplication to occur with lasers which are presently technologically feasible. These techniques will be described and the current status of theory and experiments will be given. General engineering features of possible fusion reactors will be summarized.
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Fusion reactors
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© 1974 American Institute of Physics.
1974
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