title: Fusion using fast heating of a compactly imploded CD core.
abstract: A compact fast core heating experiment is described. A 4-J 0.4-ns output of a laser-diode-pumped high-repetition laser HAMA is divided into four beams, two of which counterilluminate double-deuterated polystyrene foils separated by 100  μm for implosion. The remaining two beams, compressed to 110 fs for fast heating, illuminate the same paths. Hot electrons produced by the heating pulses heat the imploded core, emitting x-ray radiations >20  eV and yielding some 10(3) thermal neutrons.
authors.affiliation: The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsuchou, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan. kitagawa@gpi.ac.jp
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