Evaluation of a Foam Buffer Target Design for Spatially Uniform Ablation of Laser-Irradiated Plasmas
- 20 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 75 (21) , 3858-3861
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.3858
Abstract
Experimental observations are presented demonstrating that the use of a gold-coated foam layer on the surface of a laser-driven target substantially reduces its hydrodynamic breakup during the acceleration phase. The data suggest that this results from enhanced thermal smoothing during the early-time imprint stage of the interaction. The target's kinetic energy and the level of parametric instability growth are shown to remain essentially unchanged from that of a conventionally driven target.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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