FEL BASED ENERGY DRIVER FOR INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION

Authors
SALDIN EL SARANTSEV VP SCHNEIDMILLER EA ULYANOV YN YURKOV MV
Citation
El. Saldin et al., FEL BASED ENERGY DRIVER FOR INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 361(1-2), 1995, pp. 317-325
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
361
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
317 - 325
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1995)361:1-2<317:FBEDFI>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
An FEL based energy driver for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is pr oposed. The key element of the scheme is a free electron laser system. Novel technical solutions reveal a possibility to construct the FEL s ystem operating at a radiation wavelength lambda = 0.5 mu m and provid ing a flash energy E = 1 MJ and brightness 4 x 10(22) W Cm(-2)sr(-1) w ithin the steering pulse duration 0.1-2 ns. The total energy efficienc y of the proposed ICF energy driver is about 11% and repetition rate i s 40 Hz. It is shown that the FEL based ICF energy driver may be const ructed at the present level of accelerator technique R&D.