Abstract: Cylindrical inertial confinement fusion reaction chambers are disclosed according to some embodiments of the invention. These chambers can include neutron moderating/absorbing material, radiation absorbing material, and debris collection material. These chambers can also include various injection ports, nozzles, beam ports, sacrificial layers, absorbers, coolant systems, etc. These chambers can be used with directional and/or omni-directional targets.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for pumping a lasing media (preferably krypton fluoride) over a 500 nanosecond period and thereafter compressing and focusing to a target with a final 10 nanosecond compression wave is disclosed. An exciting 10 nanosecond pulse is shaped in an overall rectangular shape with the major axes vertically aligned and this shaped beam directed upwardly and to the side of a normal extending between parallel and opposed mirrors at remote ends of a chamber. The chamber includes at the top thereof a plurality of stripper mirrors aligned along axes substantially normal to the beam path and tilted upwardly to shave successive segments off the upper portion of the beam. Beam passage opposite to the direction of stripper mirror emission produces a series of emitted shaved beam segments each spaced temporally in accordance with stripper mirror separation.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for pumping a lasing media (preferably krypton fluoride) over a 500 nanosecond period and thereafter compressing and focusing to a target with a final 10 nanosecond compression wave is disclosed. An exciting 10 nanosecond pulse is shaped in an overall rectangular shape with the major axes vertically aligned and this shaped beam directed upwardly and to the side of a normal extending between parallel and opposed mirrors at remote ends of a chamber. The chamber includes at the top thereof a plurality of stripper mirrors aligned along axes substantially normal to the beam path and tilted upwardly to shave successive segments off the upper portion of the beam. Beam passage opposite to the direction of stripper mirror emission produces a series of emitted shaved beam segments each spaced temporally in accordance with stripper mirror separation.

Abstract: A long pulse laser amplifier is sequentially lased over a 0.5 microsecond period by an additive group of temporarily spaced discrete lasing colors (frequencies) each of slightly different color (approximately 1/10 of an Angstrom separation with less than 1/1000 angstrom band width). An oscillator array generates the actuating pulses which are channelled to common optical path, amplified by a factor of 10.sup.4 and split up and shaped before injection into approximately 10 final amplifiers. Each final amplifier is preceded by a chromatic deflector, preferably a diffraction grating so that each short pulse (in the order of about 10.sup.-8 seconds) is sent through the amplifier at slightly different directions. These differently directed pulses are amplified and individually address a mirror array placed at some distance away. Due to the narrow band width of each pulse, each address point is unique; there is no overlapping.