Laser plasma generation from a deuterium ice pellet freely falling within a superconducting magnetic bottle
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 5 (1) , 27-30
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3735/5/1/012
Abstract
An experimental system is described for the production of an isolated plasma blob from a freely falling, isolated deuterium ice pellet by means of a high power giant laser pulse. A falling pellet which has dimensions ranging from 0.1 to 0.4 mm (with 5*1016-3*1018atoms), is detached from the freezer head by gravity and is captured by the focused high power laser beam pulse after falling freely through about 10 cm. The plasma thus produced in a vacuum chamber is confined in a magnetic cusp or mirror field which is produced by a pair of superconducting coils.Keywords
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