Neutron production from a shell-confined carbon-deuterium plasma by 1.06 μm laser irradiation

We demonstrate for the first time the production of more than 108 neutrons per shot from a carbon-deuterium plasma confined in a 100-μm-thick gold shell without an implosion using six beams from a GEKKO XII glass laser system at a laser wavelength of 1.06 μm. The equivalent neutron of the deuterium-tritium reaction is estimated to be 1010–1011.