Publications by authors named "J R FOLTA"

As of May 2023, the public health emergency of COVID-19 was lifted across the globe. However, SARS-CoV-2 infections continue to be recorded worldwide. This situation has been attributed to the ability of the virus to evade host immune responses including neutralizing antibody-derived Immunity.

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  • * This experiment produced 2.05 MJ of laser energy, resulting in 3.1 MJ of total fusion yield, which exceeds the Lawson criterion for ignition, demonstrating a key milestone in fusion research.
  • * The report details the advancements in target design, laser technology, and experimental methods that contributed to this historic achievement, validating over five decades of research in laboratory fusion.
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  • * In inertially confined fusion, ignition allows the fusion process to spread into surrounding fuel, potentially leading to higher energy output.
  • * Recent experiments at the National Ignition Facility achieved capsule gains of 5.8 and approached ignition, even though "scientific breakeven" has not yet been fully realized.
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Substrate defect planarization has been shown to increase the laser resistance of 1053 nm mirror coatings to greater than 100  J/cm2, an increase of 20-fold, when tested with 10 ns laser pulses. Substrate surface particles that are overcoated with optical interference mirror coatings become nodular defects, which behave as microlenses intensifying light into the defect structure. By a discrete process of angle-dependent ion etching and unidirectional ion-beam deposition, substrate defects can be reduced in cross-sectional area by over 90%.

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Two example ultrahigh-spatial-resolution laser-backlit grazing-incidence x-ray microscope designs for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research have been described [Appl. Opt. 40, 4570 (2001)].

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