Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2005
J.-C. Gauthier, et al.
J. Phys. IV France 133 (2006) 621-625
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:2006133123

Beam combined IFE driver using phase controlled stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugation mirrors

Seong Ku Lee^{1, 2}, Hong Jin Kong³, Jin Woo Yoon³, Masahiro Nakatsuka², Do-Kyeong Ko¹ and Jongmin Lee<sup>1

1</sup>  Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwang Ju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwang Ju 500-712, Republic of Korea
²  Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
³  Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea

Abstract
For inertial fusion energy (IFE) generation, the giant laser facilities have been constructed in the several countries. The recent laser driver technology can achieve the output energy more than 1 M-J. In addition, the recent works shows the fast ignition can reduce the required energy for the laser fusion. This seems to realize the laser fusion, but the repetition rate is not so high for obtaining the practical laser fusion energy. The beam combination laser is a promising candidate as the laser fusion driver because it can operate at the high repetition rate and it is easily scalable. In this paper, we introduce the beam combination technique using stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirrors (SBS-PCMs), which was already proposed and shows the recent theoretical and experimental results about the phase controlling which is essentially required for the beam combination laser using SBS-PCMs.

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