The science behind our platform

From the first laser in 1960 to NIF’s ignition breakthrough in 2022, the history of laser fusion is a story of six decades of scientific milestones bringing us closer to practical fusion energy.

The BABY experiment represents an important early step toward closing the fuel loop for fusion power by directly measuring how much tritium can be bred in a molten salt blanket under realistic conditions.

The study demonstrates a compact way to make neutrons using very short (35 femtoseconds), modest-energy laser pulses (a few millijoules) focused on a stream of heavy water (D₂O).

This work shows a new way to reach extremely high pressures - on the order of petapascals - in a small volume of matter using a powerful, multi-picosecond laser pulse.

In this work, researchers showed that one can make fusion heating much more efficient by using magnets to guide the energy.