Conference on Laser Fusion, Leipzig, December 11–14, 1979

A brief review is given of the papers presented at the Thirteenth European Conference on Laser-Matter Interaction and Laser Fusion, held in Leipzig in 1979. An analysis is made of papers reporting research on high-power laser facilities, theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations of laser compression and thermonuclear combustion of targets, problems relating to the physics of interaction of high-power laser radiation with high-temperature plasma, as well as the technology of laser fusion targets.