Focused Energy

Focused Energy is a German-American laser ICF company pursuing the proton fast-ignition scheme: a long-pulse compression beam assembles the fuel while a short-pulse beam generates a proton beam that ignites the assembled fuel — decoupling compression from ignition for higher gain at lower driver energy.

Decoupling compression from ignition gives a higher gain at lower driver energy than NIF-style central hot spot.

Global electricity demand is entering an unprecedented growth phase driven by AI infrastructure, data centers, transport electrification, industrial decarbonization, water desalination, and advanced manufacturing. Solar suffers intermittency, wind capacity-factor variability, natural gas carbon emissions, conventional nuclear cost and deployment speed, and batteries energy-density and duration limits. The world requires a new source of clean, dispatchable baseload energy. Fusion represents the ultimate energy source — the challenge is making it commercially practical.

By separating the two phases of inertial fusion — compression and ignition — and using a proton beam as the ignitor, Focused Energy targets higher gain per unit driver energy than the NIF-style central-hot-spot approach.

Laser proton fast-ignition of D-T capsules at ~10 Hz repetition rate; neutron energy harvested in a tritium-breeding blanket driving conventional steam turbines.

Decouples compression from ignition, relaxing symmetry requirements that defeated indirect-drive ICF for decades.

Higher gain at lower driver energy directly translates into lower capex per installed megawatt and lower wall-plug efficiency requirements.

Practical inertial fusion power via fast ignition.

Demonstrate proton fast ignition at fusion-relevant conditions.

• kJ-class picosecond ignitor laser
• Proton beam focusing onto a mm-scale hot spot