Lindl's work in ICF has spanned a wide range of topics including high gain target designs for lasers and particle beams, hydrodynamic instabilities in ICF, implosion symmetry and hohlraum design, high energy electron production and plasma evolution in hohlraums, and the physics of compression and ignition. A book written by Lindl, titled Inertial Confinement Fusion published by Springer-Verlag in 1998, has become a widely used reference for the science of inertial fusion.