Area of research
Nuclear and High Energy Physics · Mechanics of Materials
Research interest
Research interests include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics, Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.
A future of inertial confinement fusion without laser-plasma instabilities
Modeling cross-beam energy transfer with sector ray tracing
An experimentally informed design process for future inertial confinement fusion facilities
Approaching hydro-equivalent ignition in laser direct-drive via target design optimization using novel statistical modeling
Progress toward hydro-equivalent ignition in OMEGA direct-drive DT-layered implosions
Dynamics of implosion, bounce, and re-implosion of a shell directly driven by a time-shaped laser pulse
Demonstration of a hydrodynamically equivalent burning plasma in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion
Demonstration of hot-spot fuel gain exceeding unity in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions
Understanding the fusion yield dependencies in OMEGA DT-layered implosion experiments using a physics-based statistical mapping model
Proof-of-Principle Experiment on the Dynamic Shell Formation for Inertial Confinement Fusion
Exploration of cross-beam energy transfer mitigation constraints for designing an ignition-scale direct-drive inertial confinement fusion driver
Erratum: “Exploration of cross-beam energy transfer mitigation constraints for designing an ignition-scale direct-drive inertial confinement fusion driver” [Phys. Plasmas
<b>30</b>
(8), 082701 (2023)]
Measuring magnetic flux suppression in high-power laser–plasma interactions
Bound on hot-spot mix in high-velocity, high-adiabat direct-drive cryogenic implosions based on comparison of absolute x-ray and neutron yields
Three-dimensional hot-spot x-ray emission tomography from cryogenic deuterium-tritium direct-drive implosions on OMEGA.
Optimization of irradiation configuration using spherical t-designs for laser-direct-drive inertial confinement fusion
Analysis of limited coverage effects on areal density measurements in inertial confinement fusion implosions
Using statistical modeling to predict and understand fusion experiments
Novel Hot-Spot Ignition Designs for Inertial Confinement Fusion with Liquid-Deuterium-Tritium Spheres
Tripled yield in direct-drive laser fusion through statistical modelling
Real and complex valued geometrical optics inverse ray-tracing for inline field calculations
Adaptive inverse ray-tracing for accurate and efficient modeling of cross beam energy transfer in hydrodynamics simulations
Rarefaction Flows and Mitigation of Imprint in Direct-Drive Implosions
Impact of imposed mode 2 laser drive asymmetry on inertial confinement fusion implosions
A 3D dynamic model to assess the impacts of low-mode asymmetry, aneurysms and mix-induced radiative loss on capsule performance across inertial confinement fusion platforms
From ICF to laboratory astrophysics: ablative and classical Rayleigh–Taylor instability experiments in turbulent-like regimes
National direct-drive program on OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility
A laboratory study of asymmetric magnetic reconnection in strongly driven plasmas