[infogulch]

What if the fusion container was an x-ray laser? Could it induce fusion, where emitted xrays are in phase with the laser? I can imagine that an extreme high energy, directable, phase aligned, giant laser power source could be pretty useful.

[pmayrgundter]

Yeah, the NIF experiment is laser driven fusion, but I don't think that even being in phase would help capture the light. Not sure. It's the Ryberg coupling with light (without the usual requirement of just lots of mass/shielding) that's kind of unique here