On July 22, ARPA-E and Fusion Industry Association co-hosted a virtual Lightning Round. The event consisted of three sessions with Capability Teams funded by ARPA-E giving short presentations to the FIA Membership.
The event provided an efficient way for FIA members to receive information about the teams and capabilities, and ask questions and make connections for detailed follow-up. If there is interest, FIA Members should contact the teams directly about opportunities to work together.
Session 1: Diagnostics for plasma parameters
LLNL/UCSD, Simon Bott-Suzuki (UCSD) (for Clement Goyon, LLNL), A Portable Thomson Scattering System to Measure Plasma Density and Temperature
ORNL, Ted Biewer (ORNL), Portable Diagnostic Package
PPPL, Sam Cohen (PPPL), Ion energy analyzer (IEA)
ORNL, Elijah Martin (ORNL), Doppler-Free Saturation Spectroscopy (DFSS)
UC-Davis, Neville Luhmann (UC, Davis), Ultrashort Pulse Reflectometer
Session 2 Diagnostics for neutrons and photons
LANL, Glen Wurden (LANL), Soft X-ray, EUV spectroscopy, neutron, and fast-imaging diagnostics
Rochester/LLE, Jonathan Davies (UR/LLE), Neutron Diagnostics
LLNL, Drew Higginson (LLNL/UCB), Portable & Adaptable Neutron Diagnostics for ARPA-E (PANDA)
Caltech, Paul Bellan (Caltech), 1D Coded Aperture X-ray Camera
Session 3 Theory/modeling and costing
Rochester/LLE, Petros Tzeferacos (UR/LLE), A Simulation Capability Team for Innovative Fusion Concepts
VTech, Ammar Hakim (PPPL) (for Bhuvana Srinivasan (VTech), Theory, Modeling, and Validation for a Range of Innovative Fusion Concepts Using High-Fidelity Moment-Kinetic Models
SapientAI, Craig Michoski (SapientAI), Data-enabled Fusion Technology (DeFT)
MIT, John Wright (MIT), Radio Frequency Scenario Modeling for Breakthrough Fusion Concepts
PPPL/WSI, Simon Woodruff (WSI), Fusion Costing Capability Team
The team “trading cards” with contacts and information presented during the event are now available below and linked for download by clicking on the session title.