title: Laser-confined fusion.
abstract: An approach for producing a large quantity of neutrons is proposed. It involves compression of a fuel foil and confinement of the resulting plasma between two intense laser pulses. It is shown that two circularly polarized laser pulses of amplitude a = 7 illuminating a deuterium-tritium foil of areal density 3.3 x 10(18) cm(-2) can produce about 4.2 x 10(6) neutrons per joule of the input laser energy.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, P. O. Box 800-211, Shanghai 201800, China.
authors.forename: Baifei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Xiaomei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Yu