Successful Development of the Shenguang-II Laser Facility

摘要

The ultimate objective of the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research is to achieve the realization of controllable nuclear fusion, a kind of subatomic reactions, in which the union of lighter atomic nuclei forms heavier ones in company with release of an enormous amount of energy, in hope of solving the increasingly urgent issue of energy shortage in human society. Acting as an important experimental platform for the short-term and mid-term ICF studies in China, the Shenguang (Divine Light)-ll laser facility (SC-II) is the largest facility ever developed in this country and listed among the few high-performance and huge-power solid-state laser drivers in the world today.