The performance of triple-picket deuterium-tritium cryogenic target designs on the OMEGA Laser System [T. R. Boehly et al., Opt. Commun. 133, 495 (1997)] is reported. These designs facilitate control of shock heating in low-adiabat inertial confinement fusion targets. Areal densities up to $300\mathrm{mg}/{\mathrm{cm}}^2$ (the highest ever measured in cryogenic deuterium-tritium implosions) are inferred in the experiments with an implosion velocity $\sim 3\times {10}^7\mathrm{cm}/\mathrm{s}$ driven at peak laser intensities of $8\times {10}^{14}\mathrm{W}/{\mathrm{cm}}^2$. Extension of these designs to ignition on the National Ignition Facility [J. A. Paisner et al., Laser Focus World 30, 75 (1994)] is presented.

• Received 1 December 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.165001