A new method to produce an annular cylindrical plasma for imploding plasma experiments
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 56 (11) , 3209-3214
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.333839
Abstract
We present a new method to produce a hollow cylindrical metallic plasma. A metallic foil is exploded by discharging a capacitor bank; the vapor which is produced expands through an annular diaphragm and forms a cylindrical shell of weakly ionized gas, which can be imploded to produce a hot, dense plasma, resulting in a high-power soft x-ray pulse. The density of the hollow cylindrical plasma is measured by resonant interferometry, a new and powerful diagnostic for probing the plasma mass density before the compression (neutral density ≂1016 cm−3). Our device is complementary to supersonic gas-puff or exploding wires experiments.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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