Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

1. Front Matter

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2. “Edward Teller Medalists”

   1. Lecture in Connection with the Edward Teller Medal Award

      • Edward Teller

      Pages 1-4

   2. Laser Fusion Research in 30 Years: Lecture of Edward Teller Awardee

      • C. Yamanaka

      Pages 5-9

   3. New Basic Physics Derived from Laser Plasma Interaction

      • Heinrich Hora

      Pages 11-21

   4. Edward Teller Medal: Acceptance Remarks

      • John H. Nuckolls

      Pages 23-24

   5. Comments on the History and Prospects for Inertial Confinement Fusion

      • Nikolai G. Basov

      Pages 25-28

3. Lasers

   1. Demonstration of a Nuclear Flashlamp-Pumped Atomic Iodine Laser

      • Wade H. Williams, George H. Miley

      Pages 29-65

   2. A Comparison of Electrical, Fusion-Generated-Ion, and Fission-Generated-Ion ICF Drivers

      • Mark A. Prelas, Frederick P. Boody

      Pages 67-78

   3. Computation of the Compression of Frequency Modulated Pulses in Linear Dispersive Media Using a Time-Domain Method: Examples and Guidelines

      • G. E. Sieger, D. J. Mayhall, J. H. Yee

      Pages 79-89

   4. Tending to Saturated Gain of Soft X-Ray Laser at 23.2 and 23.6Nm

      • Zhang Guoping, Sheng Jiatian, Yang Minglun, Zhang Tanxin, Shao Yunfeng, Peng Huimin et al.

      Pages 91-97

   5. Progress in ICF and X-Ray Laser Experiments at CAEP

      • H. S. Peng, Z. J. Zheng, S. J. Wang, Y. Cun, J. G. Yang, Z. C. Tao

      Pages 99-104

   6. Decrease of Radiation Trapping in a Laser-Produced Plasma with Volume-Reducing Deviations from Cylindrical Geometry

      • W. Brunner, R. W. John

      Pages 105-109

   7. X-Ray Optics of Arrays of Reflective Surfaces

      • A. V. Rode, H. N. Chapman, K. A. Nugent, S. W. Wilkinson

      Pages 111-123

   8. Scaling Law for the Temperature and Energy of X-Ray in Laser Cavity Targets and in Comparison with Experimental Measurements

      • Zhang Jun, Pei Wenbing

      Pages 125-135

   9. X-Ray Lasing in a Muon Catalyzed Fusion System

      • S. Eliezer, Z. Henis

      Pages 137-149

   10. Status and Issues in the Development of a Gamma-Ray Laser

       • C. B. Collins, J. J. Carroll, K. N. Taylor, T. W. Sinor, C. Hong, J. Standifird et al.

       Pages 151-166

4. Interaction Mechanisms

   1. Generation of Magnetic Field by Circularly Polarized Light and Thermomagnetic Instability in a Laser Plasma

      • H. R. Strauss, S. Eliezer, Y. Paiss, A. Fruchtman

      Pages 167-170

   2. Laser Driven Plasma Instabilities at Moderate Laser Irradiances

      • L. A. Gizzi, D. Batani, V. Biancalana, M. Borghesi, P. Chessa, I. Deha et al.

      Pages 171-179

   3. Pulsation and Stuttering of Laser Interaction with Plasmas and its Suppression by Smoothing

      • Meral Aydin, Heinrich Hora

      Pages 181-195

   4. Distributed Absorption and Inhibited Heat Transport

      • J. S. De Groot, K. G. Estabrook, W. L. Kruer, R. P. Drake, K. Mizuno, S. M. Cameron

      Pages 197-208

The Tenth International Workshop on "Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena" was held November 11-15, 1991, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. This conference joined physicists from 11 countries (Australia, Canada, China, France, Israel, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, united Kingdom, USA, and the USSR). This meeting was marked by the inauguration of the EDWARD TELLER MEDAL FOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN FUSION ENERGY. This medal served as a celebration of the tenth conference in the 22-year series and as an opportunity to honor one of the world's greatest physicists and a leading pioneer in this field: Edward Teller. Four medals were awarded in the inaugural ceremony. The first recipient of the medal was Nobel Laureate Nikolai G. Basov, who served for many years as Director of the LebedevPhysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In his address to Edward Teller, Dr. Basov underlined that Dr. Teller was the first in history to produce an exothermal nuclear fusion reaction, the mechanism that may now lead to an inexhaustive, environmentally clean, and low cost energy source in the future. This goal, he stressed, becomes more crucial as the greenhouse effect may not permit burning of fossil fuels for much longer. Basov also reviewed events leading the International Quantum Electronics Conferences of 1963 where he disclosed the first publication on laser fusion and that of 1968 where he reported the first observation of fusion neutrons using a laser-irradiated target. The second recipient was John H.

• Nuclear fusion
• Plasma
• computer-aided engineering (CAE)
• electronics
• electrons
• integrated circuit
• laser

• Fusion Studies Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

  George H. Miley

• CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  Heinrich Hora

• University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

  Heinrich Hora

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