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.
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978-1-4615-3324-5 (9781461533245)
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10.1007/978-1-4615-3324-5
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Lecture in Connection with the Edward Teller Medal Award.- Laser Fusion Research in 30 Years.- New Basic Physics Derived from Laser Plasma Interaction.- Edward Teller Medal: Acceptance Remarks.- Comments on the History and Prospects for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Demonstration of a Nuclear Flashlamp-Pumped Atomic Iodine Laser.- A Comparison of Electrical, Fusion-Generated-Ion, and Fission-Generated-Ion ICF Drivers.- Computation of the Compression of Frequency Modulated Pulses in Linear Dispersive Media Using a Time-Domain Method: Examples.- Tending to Saturated Gain of Soft X-Ray Laser at 23.2 and 23.6 nm.- Progress in ICF and X-Ray Laser Experiments at CAEP.- Decrease of Radiation Trapping in a Laser-Produced Plasma with Volume-Reducing Deviations from Cylindrical Geometry.- X-Ray Optics of Arrays of Reflective Surfaces.- Scaling Law for the Temperature and Energy of X-Ray in Laser Cavity Targets and in Comparison with Experimental Measurements.- X-Ray Lasing in a Muon Catalyzed Fusion System.- Status and Issues in the Development of a Gamma-Ray Laser.- Generation of Magnetic Field by Circularly Polarized Light and Thermomagnetic Instability in a Laser Plasma.- Laser Driven Plasma Instabilities at Moderate Laser Irradiances.- Pulsation and Stuttering of Laser Interaction with Plasmas and Its Suppression by Smoothing.- Distributed Absorption and Inhibited Heat Transport.- Two-Dimensional Calculation of Electromagnetic Pulse Generation by Laser-Initiated Air Avalanche Switches.- Two-Dimensional Calculation of High-Power Microwave Bandwidth Broadening by Laser-Induced Air Breakdown.- Partially Coherent Light for Improving Irradiation Uniformity in Directly Driven Laser Fusion Experiments.- Time-Resolved Measurements of Plasma Conditions and Gradients in Radiatively-Heated Foils.- A Survey of Ion Acoustic Decay Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasma.- Convective Gain of Parametric Instabilities: An Experimentalist's Viewpoint.- The Nova Upgrade Facility for ICF Ignition and Gain.- Advancement of Inertial Fusion Research.- Volume Ignition for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Comments about Neutron Feedback NPL Driven ICF.- Diamond Photovoltaic Cells as a First Wall Material and Energy Conversion System for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Advanced Energy for Greenhouse Effect.- Panel on Fusion as a Solution for the Greenhouse Effect or Global Warming, and, to Help Further That Goal, Inertial Fusion Targets for Deeply Penetrating Beams.- Laser Fusion - High Density Compression Experiment and Ignition Program with GEKKO XII.- Interaction Physics for Megajoule Laser Fusion Targets.- Experimental Studies of Implosion of Indirectly Driven DT-Filled Targets.- Laser Plasma Interaction Studies Relevant for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- ICF Physics and Numerical Simulation at DENIM.- Numerical Simulations and Numerical Analysis of Reactor-Size Indirectly Driven Inertial Fusion Target Implosions.- Ion Beam Coupling and Target Physics Experiments at Sandia National Laboratories.- Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Measurement of Ablation Plasma Produced by Intense Pulsed Ion Beam.- Focusing and Propagation of Proton Beam.- Focusing and Transportation of Intense Light Ion Beam in Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Symmetry Analysis of Perturbed Ion Beam-Target Interactions.- Acceleration of Electrons by Lasers in Vacuum.- Thomas-Fermi Like and Average Atom Model Equations of State for Highly Compressed Matter at Any Temperature.- Laser Induced Shock Waves and Dynamic Damage.- Hot Plasma Model for Cluster Impact Fusion.- Ion Cluster Stopping in Cold Targets forICF.- Attendees.- Author Index.
