Thank you for understanding and considering the idea properly. I also wonder what would happen to the pellet during the pulse.
Maybe it would be finely compressed,
maybe it would need precise location and speed control,
maybe it would need special form for pellet,
maybe it would need ionization in some way.
maybe the use of lasers to preheat it could resolve the squishing problem and that could result in a hybrid laser inertial dpf.
Still we are at the birth of a fusion energy research field and I expect lots of mixing and matching from all the fusion concepts in all the design areas when we are further down the road:
confinement, thermal management, radiation management, bremsstrahlung control, fuels, switches, capacitors …