Editing List of laser applications (section)

=== Nuclear fusion ===
{{Main|Inertial confinement fusion}}

Some of the world's most powerful and complex arrangements of multiple lasers and optical amplifiers are used to produce extremely high intensity pulses of light of extremely short duration, e.g. [[laboratory for laser energetics]], [[National Ignition Facility]], [[GEKKO XII]], [[Nike laser]], [[Laser Mégajoule]], [[HiPER]]. These pulses are arranged such that they impact pellets of [[tritium]]&ndash;[[deuterium]] simultaneously from all directions, hoping that the squeezing effect of the impacts will induce atomic [[nuclear fusion|fusion]] in the pellets. This technique, known as "[[inertial confinement fusion]]", so far has not been able to achieve "breakeven", that is, so far the fusion reaction generates less power than is used to power the lasers, however; experiments at the [[National Ignition Facility]] were able to demonstrate fusion reactions that generate more energy than was contained within the lasers driving the reaction.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment |journal=Phys. Rev. Lett. |volume=132 |issue=6 |pages=065102 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.065102 }}</ref>