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One reason you might not find ‘inertial’ is because the only thing they have in common is a laser. For ICF, a long-pulse laser is used like a hammer to heat an
by pxhb 7y ago
One reason you might not find ‘inertial’ is because the only thing they have in common is a laser.
For ICF, a long-pulse laser is used like a hammer to heat and compress the material to fusion conditions.
This scheme, as far as I can tell, uses the large EM fields of a short-pulse laser to accelerate a ‘beam’ of ions into cold material to induce fusion.