Petawatt laser driven cluster foils for an intense pulsed neutron source

Current work exploring a method for using a Petawatt laser to irradiate a deuterium-cluster (D-cluster) “converter foil” producing a very high (multi-MeV) energy deuteron beam. When focussed on a tritiated target this beam results in a forward favored angular distribution neutron pulse of large intensity (directional pulsed neutron source).