Published August 8, 1983
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Journal article
Return-current heating and implosion of cylindrical CO2-laser--driven targets
Creators
- 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
Description
The Helios laser system has been used to deliver 2.3 kJ to the capped end of 0.75-mm-long, 130-μm-diam hollow rods of 5-μm wall thickness. Soft--x-ray pinhole pictures demonstrate the cylindrical implosion of these targets. The measured 130-eV core temperatures from the filtered pictures and the 7 x 106-cm/s collapse velocity from optical streak photographs are consistent with heating by a 0.8 x 106-A return current, representing the recycling of 15% of the hot-electron emission
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Volume
- 51
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 459-462
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 15007764
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; CYLINDERS; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; JOULE HEATING; LASER IMPLOSIONS; LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA; LINEAR Z PINCH DEVICES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA PRODUCTION
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLIFIERS; DATA; EQUIPMENT; GAS LASERS; HEATING; IMPLOSIONS; INFORMATION; LASERS; LINEAR PINCH DEVICES; NUMERICAL DATA; OPEN PLASMA DEVICES; PINCH DEVICES; PLASMA; PLASMA HEATING; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES