This is the same principle behind inertial confinement fusion.
An approach that most scientists now regard as more promising is called magnetic confinement fusion, the system embodied in the Princeton tokamak.
Nike was completed in the late 1980s and is used for investigations into inertial confinement fusion.
The main use for both lasers being the investigation into inertial confinement fusion, high energy density physics and nuclear weapons research.
Railguns may also be miniaturized for inertial confinement nuclear fusion.
While not currently economically viable, magnetic confinement fusion shows promise as a future energy source.
In recent years, he has published on the behavior of high explosives, novel approaches to inertial confinement fusion, and numerical algorithms.
These have been used in extremely high power applications, such as experiments in inertial confinement fusion.
The main incentive for developing these intense beams is the hope of achieving inertial - confinement fusion.
Winterberg has published numerous articles in the area of inertial confinement fusion.