Ok, so I admit I’m on an endless roll of antimatter posting here ! ! !
But I just decided that I would also like to mention one more thing. According to Charles Cagle of Singularity Technologies, the hydrogen bomb does not really work by hot fusion quite so much as originally believed. The H – Bomb worked so well until it blinded physicists as to how it really works, according to Cagle. His own theory is that the highly energetic gamma rays emitted from the plutonium fission detonation causes space – time in the near vicinity of an energetic gamma ray to shrink. This slowing down of the rate of time by an energetic gamma ray weakens the electrostatic coulomb charge enough for two nuclei to come into close enough proximity to each other. In other words, the gamma ray is the real catalyst for neutralizing the repulsive coulomb charge, not the high temperature. At least according to the thermonuclear theory put forth by Cagle.
Now just substitute intense gamma rays from laser induced antimatter in place of the plutonium fission gamma rays and you get a basic idea of what might be possible. In other words, a highly energetic gamma ray might be a nuclear fusion catalyst without it necessarily having to be first converted into thermal energy.