Recent progress of inertial confinement fusion experiments in China

The experimental progresses for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) on Shenguang laser facilities in China since 2000 are reviewed in this paper. Many experiments were made on Shenguang II (SG-II) and Shenguang III prototype (SG-III YX). Eight beams of 0.35$\mu$ m laser with pulse duration of 1 ns and total energy of 2 kJ enter into a hohlraum to create intense X-ray radiation of 180 eV on the SG-${\rm I}{\rm I}$ laser facility. The experiments on SG-II included much physics research, which consisted with hohlraum physics, implosion physics, fluid dynamical instability, opacity and shock wave driven by radiation. A lot of experimental data were obtained on SG-II. The DT neutron yield driven by radiation achieved 10$^{8}$ on SG-II. After SG-III YX was completed in 2006, the ICF experiments were mainly be made on SG-III YX that was a 8-beam, 351-nm, Nd:glass laser with an on-target energy capability in excess of 8 kJ. The radiation temperature was about 220 eV and the DT neutron yield driven by radiation was over 10$^{10}$ on SG-III YX.