The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world's largest laser system. It contains a 192 beam
neodymium glass laser that is designed to deliver 1.8 MJ at 500 TW at 351 nm in order to …

… Orth has authored or coauthored numerous books, including … Prior to joining /JAI, Orth was
an assistant professor and later an … Orth received his MBA degree with distinction from the …

After every other failure mode has been considered, in the end, the high-performance limit
of all lasers is set by optical damage. The demands of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) …

The first inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments with equimolar deuterium-tritium
thermonuclear fuel have been performed on the National Ignition Facility. These …

… 1 The present work is also an expansion of Orth et al. (1977), … with our analysis of a
subsequent experiment (Buffington, Orth, and Mast 1978), which indicates that onehalf of the …

A comprehensive conceptual design for a diode pumped solid state laser (DPSSL) as a driver
for an inertial fusion energy (IFE) power plant is presented. This design is based on recent …

Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is an ideal technology to power self-contained single-stage
piloted (manned) spacecraft within the solar system because of its inherently high power/…

… and Orth 1975). All 273 events having either an apparent negative-curving film-plane
sagitta, or an … The relativistic abundances relative to carbon are also in good agreement …

We have used a bremsstrahlung-identification technique to measure electron and positron
spectra in the primary cosmic rays from 4 to 50 GeV. Above our average geomagnetic cutoff …

Non-burning thermonuclear fuel implosion experiments have been fielded on the National
Ignition Facility to assess progress toward ignition by indirect drive inertial confinement fusion. …