REVIEW OF TARGETS FOR LASER-IRRADIATED NEUTRON SOURCES

The use of neutrons has found wide applications in science, technology, industry, and safety. In this regard, there is a need to create compact particle sources with high performance. Creation of neutrons under the action of laser radiation is the most promising for realization of installations of this type. Lasers create high quality energy, due to which high fluence of neutrons and charged particles with high frequency is possible. In this paper, compact schemes of neutron generation under the influence of low-power laser sources are considered, their comparative analysis is carried out to identify the most promising scheme for further research.