ABSTRACT
While conventional laser-driven fusion facilities (such as National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Laser Megajoule (LMJ)) are essential research tools for studying the possibility of achieving fusion, they are suitable as a basis for an actual power plant. The problems which presently used Nd-glass lasers would face as drivers for a reactor can be summarized by:
• Their efficiency is far too low, typically 6-10%. Even optimzed Ndglass technology would only achieve 15%.
