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Fusion experiments have begun at Antares

SEP 01, 1984

DOI: 10.1063/1.2916397

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Antares, the world’s highest‐power CO2 laser, was ceremonially dedicated at Los Alamos in January. Experiments had in fact begun a month earlier. The purpose of Antares is to evaluate the feasibility of CO2 lasers as drivers for inertial‐confinement fusion. The system’s 24 laser beams are focused onto a 100‐micron‐diameter deuterium‐tritium target pellet, delivering 25‐kilojoules of 10.6‐micron, infrared light in nanosecond pulses. It is anticipated that Antares will eventually run at 40 kJ.

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© 1984 American Institute of Physics
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