التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Experimental demonstration of >20 kJ laser energy coupling in 1-cm hydrocarbon-filled gas pipe targets via inverse Bremsstrahlung absorption with applications to MagLIF. |
| المؤلفون: |
Pollock, B. B., Goyon, C., Sefkow, A. B., Glinsky, M. E., Peterson, K. J., Weis, M. R., Carroll, E. G., Fry, J., Piston, K., Harvey-Thompson, A. J., Hansen, S. B., Beckwith, K., Ampleford, D. J., Tubman, E. R., Strozzi, D. J., Ross, J. S., Moody, J. D. |
| المصدر: |
Physics of Plasmas; Feb2023, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p1-10, 10p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
NATURAL gas pipelines, BREMSSTRAHLUNG, THERMAL electrons, ELECTRON gas, LASERS, INERTIAL confinement fusion, ELECTRON temperature, ELECTRON density |
| مستخلص: |
Laser propagation experiments using four beams of the National Ignition Facility to deliver up to 35 kJ of laser energy at 351 nm laser wavelength to heat magnetized liner inertial fusion-scale (1 cm-long), hydrocarbon-filled gas pipe targets to ∼keV electron temperatures have demonstrated energy coupling >20 kJ with essentially no backscatter in 15% critical electron density gas fills with 0–19 T applied axial magnetic fields. The energy coupling is also investigated for an electron density of 11.5% critical and for applied field strengths up to 24 T at both densities. This spans a range of Hall parameters 0 < ω c e τ e i ≲ 2, where a Hall parameter of 0.5 is expected to reduce electron thermal conduction across the field lines by a factor of 4–5 for the conditions of these experiments. At sufficiently high applied field strength (and therefore Hall parameter), the measured laser propagation speed through the targets increases in the measurements, consistent with reduced perpendicular electron thermal transport; this reduces the coupled energy to the target once the laser burns through the gas pipe. The results compare well with a 1D analytic propagation model for inverse Bremsstrahlung absorption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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