Laser-Driven MagLIF

2017:

Sandia National Laboratories and LLE entered into a collaboration to test the scaling of magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) over a range of absorbed energy of the order of 1 kJ on OMEGA to 500 kJ on Sandia’s Pulsed-Power Facility (Z machine). This work is being funded with a two-year, $3.8M award from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to study the potential of combining these two different technologies to produce controlled fusion reactions.

Shown here is Horton fellow Daniel Barnak preparing components to be used on a MagLIF experiment on the OMEGA Laser System