Hybrid-drive pressure suppressing implosion instabilities and offering nonstagnation hotspot ignition with low convergence ratio for high-gain inertial fusion

Jiwei Li, XianTu He, Lifeng Wang +15

In laser-drive ICF, hybrid drive (HD) combined direct drive (DD) and indirect drive (ID) offers a smoothed HD pressure $P_{HD}$, far higher than the ablation pressure in ID and DD,…