Fig. 1. Nanodroplet size dependence of the table-top fusion yields , Equation (1), within the source–target design for the fusion of deuterons with a solid hollow cylinder of , , solid deuterium, and deuterated polyethylene , as marked on the curves. The laser parameters are , , and . The inset shows the energy dependence of the fusion reaction probability .

Fig. 2. A record of the currently available data for the dependence of the efficiency of conversion of laser energy to nuclear energy on the laser pulse energy for table-top fusion driven by CE of nanodroplets and in a source–target design. A comparison is presented between experimental data for DD fusion driven by CE of ( and clusters inside and outside a macroscopic plasma filament^[5–8], theoretical–computational data for fusion of deuterium with light atoms , , T, and D within the source–target design (present work and reference 26), and of experimental data for DT and DD inertial fusion in ‘big science’ inertial fusion setups ^[28–30].