Published September 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurements of the hole boring velocity from Doppler shifted harmonic emission from solid targets

  • 1. Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom)
  • 4. H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Ave., Bristol BS8 1TL (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Max Planck Society, Research Unit ''X-Ray Optics'', University of Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena (Germany)
  • 6. IESL/FORTH, University of Crete, P.O. Box 1527, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete (Greece)
  • 7. Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)

Description

The fast ignitor scheme for inertial confinement fusion requires forward driving of the critical density surface by light pressure (hole boring) to allow energy deposition close to the dense fuel. The recession velocity of the critical density surface has been observed to be v/c=0.015 at an irradiance of 1.0x1019 Wcm-2 at a wavelength of 1.05 micron, in quantitative agreement with modeling. copyright 1996 American Institute of Physics

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
3
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 3242-3244.
ISSN
1070-664X
CODEN
PHPAEN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
27079913
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
DOPPLER EFFECT; HARMONIC GENERATION; ICF DEVICES; LASER RADIATION; LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA; PONDEROMOTIVE FORCE; RADIATION PRESSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
Descriptors DEC
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; PLASMA; RADIATIONS; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES