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J. P. Knauer is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States and has a significant research presence in the fields of physics and engineering. Their work predominantly addresses topics within physics and astronomy, with a strong focus on nuclear and high energy physics as well as radiation and mechanics of materials. Knauer's research spans several interrelated subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, and geophysics.

Their main research topics include laser-plasma interactions and diagnostics, laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma, nuclear physics and applications, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Other areas of work involve laser design and applications, laser-matter interactions, and fusion materials and technologies.

Knauer has contributed to a range of scientific publications with frequent appearances in leading venues such as:

  • Review of Scientific Instruments
  • Physics of Plasmas
  • Physical Review E
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Nature Physics

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Knauer include:

  • "Demonstration of a hydrodynamically equivalent burning plasma in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion" (2024, Nature Physics)
  • "Direct-drive laser fusion: status, plans and future" (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
  • "Mitigation of mode-one asymmetry in laser-direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions" (2021, Physics of Plasmas)
  • "Experimentally Inferred Fusion Yield Dependencies of OMEGA Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions" (2021, Physical Review Letters)
  • "Demonstration of hot-spot fuel gain exceeding unity in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions" (2024, Nature Physics)

Knauer frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • S. P. Regan
  • C. J. Forrest
  • C. Stöeckl
  • V. Yu. Glebov
  • R. Betti

Their research contributions concentrate heavily on topics related to laser-driven fusion, plasma physics, and the mechanics underlying inertial confinement fusion implosions. The body of work reflects steady engagement in advancing experimental and theoretical understanding of laser-plasma dynamics and laser fusion technologies.

Best Publications

  • Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion: A review

    R. S. Craxton;K. S. Anderson;T. R. Boehly;V. N. Goncharov

  • Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility

    M. J. Edwards;P. K. Patel;J. D. Lindl;L. J. Atherton

  • Spectrometry of charged particles from inertial-confinement-fusion plasmas

    F. H. Séguin;J. A. Frenje;C. K. Li;D. G. Hicks

  • Measuring E and B fields in laser-produced plasmas with monoenergetic proton radiography.

    C. K. Li;F. H. Séguin;J. A. Frenje;J. R. Rygg

  • Direct‐drive laser‐fusion experiments with the OMEGA, 60‐beam, >40 kJ, ultraviolet laser system

    J. M. Soures;R. L. McCrory;C. P. Verdon;A. Babushkin

  • Reduction of laser imprinting using polarization smoothing on a solid-state fusion laser

    T. R. Boehly;V. A. Smalyuk;D. D. Meyerhofer;J. P. Knauer

  • A review of the ablative stabilization of the Rayleigh--Taylor instability in regimes relevant to inertial confinement fusion

    J. D. Kilkenny;S. G. Glendinning;S. W. Haan;B. A. Hammel

  • Proton Radiography of Inertial Fusion Implosions

    J. R. Rygg;F. H. Séguin;C. K. Li;J. A. Frenje

  • Observation of the transition from thomson to Compton scattering in multiphoton interactions with low-energy electrons.

    C. I. Moore;J. P. Knauer;D. D. Meyerhofer

  • Observation of megagauss-field topology changes due to magnetic reconnection in laser-produced plasmas.

    C. K. Li;F. H. Séguin;J. A. Frenje;J. R. Rygg

  • Early stage of implosion in inertial confinement fusion: Shock timing and perturbation evolution

    V. N. Goncharov;O. V. Gotchev;E. Vianello;T. R. Boehly

  • The high-foot implosion campaign on the National Ignition Facilitya)

    O. A. Hurricane;D. A. Callahan;D. T. Casey;E. L. Dewald

  • Inertially confined fusion plasmas dominated by alpha-particle self-heating

    O. A. Hurricane;D. A. Callahan;D. T. Casey;E. L. Dewald

  • Polar direct drive on the National Ignition Facility

    S. Skupsky;J. A. Marozas;R. S. Craxton;R. Betti

  • The experimental plan for cryogenic layered target implosions on the National Ignition Facility--The inertial confinement approach to fusion

    M. J. Edwards;J. D. Lindl;B. K. Spears;S. V. Weber

  • Improved performance of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion target designs with adiabat shaping using an intensity picket

    V. N. Goncharov;J. P. Knauer;P. W. McKenty;P. B. Radha

  • Two-dimensional simulations of plastic-shell, direct-drive implosions on OMEGA

    P. B. Radha;V. N. Goncharov;T. J. B. Collins;J. A. Delettrez

  • Inertial confinement fusion implosions with imposed magnetic field compression using the OMEGA Laser

    M. Hohenberger;P.-Y. Chang;G. Fiksel;J. P. Knauer

  • The National Ignition Facility neutron time-of-flight system and its initial performance (invited).

    V. Yu. Glebov;T. C. Sangster;C. Stoeckl;J. P. Knauer

  • Laser-driven magnetic-flux compression in high-energy-density plasmas.

    O. V. Gotchev;Po-Yu Chang;J. P. Knauer;D. D. Meyerhofer

Frequent Co-Authors

D. D. Meyerhofer
D. D. Meyerhofer Los Alamos National Laboratory
C. Stoeckl
C. Stoeckl University of Rochester
Otto Landen
Otto Landen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Bruce Remington
Bruce Remington Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A. J. Mackinnon
A. J. Mackinnon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ronald M. Epstein
Ronald M. Epstein University of Rochester Medical Center
S. W. Haan
S. W. Haan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P. K. Patel
P. K. Patel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Omar Hurricane
Omar Hurricane Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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