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The Janus laser was a (then considered high power) two beam infrared neodymium doped silica glass laser built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1974 for the study of inertial confinement fusion. Janus was built using about 100 pounds of Nd:glass laser material. Initially, Janus was only capable of producing laser pulses of about 10 joules of energy.

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Magnetic confinement: – Tokamak – Spheromak – Stellarator – Reversed field pinch – Field-Reversed Configuration – Levitated Dipole Inertial confinement: – Laser driven – Z-pinch – Bubble fusion (acoustic confinement) – Fusor (electrostatic confinement) Other forms of fusion: – Muon-catalyzed fusion – Pyroelectric fusion – Migma – Polywell – Dense plasma focus
List of fusion experiments
Magnetic confinement devices ITER (International) \| JET (European) \| JT-60 (Japan) \| Large Helical Device (Japan) \| KSTAR (Korea) \| EAST (China) \| T-15 (Russia) \| DIII-D (USA) \| Tore Supra (France) \| TFTR (USA) \| NSTX (USA) \| NCSX (USA) \| UCLA ET (USA) \| Alcator C-Mod (USA) \| LDX (USA) \| H-1NF (Australia) \| MAST (UK) \| START (UK) \| ASDEX Upgrade (Germany) \| Wendelstein 7-X (Germany) \| TCV (Switzerland) \| DEMO (Commercial) Inertial confinement devices Laser driven: — NIF (USA) \| OMEGA laser (USA) \| Nova laser (USA) \| Novette laser (USA) \| Nike laser (USA) \| Shiva laser (USA) \| Argus laser (USA) \| Cyclops laser (USA) \| Janus laser (USA) \| Long path laser (USA) \| 4 pi laser (USA) \| LMJ (France) \| Luli2000 (France) \| GEKKO XII (Japan) \| ISKRA lasers (Russia) \| Vulcan laser (UK) \| Asterix IV laser (Czech Republic) \| HiPER laser (European) Non-laser driven: — Z machine (USA) \| PACER (USA) See also: International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility