Double-Shell-Target Implosion by Four Beams from the GEKKO IV Laser System
- 15 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 51 (7) , 570-573
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.51.570
Abstract
A double-shell-target implosion was studied with the GEKKO IV glass-laser system. The inner-shell trajectory, recorded for the first time by a newly developed two-frame x-ray shadowgraphy technique, was analyzed by a self-similar flow model, implying more than 20% outer-inner kinetic-energy conversion. The trajectory also agreed with a one-dimensional code result including a vacuum insulation effect. A two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation analyzed the illumination nonuniformity printed on the inner shell.Keywords
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