ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
Indirect/direct-hybrid irradiation has been proposed for suppressing the initial imprint of laser-irradiation nonuniformities. Indirect soft x-ray preirradiation of the target generates a plasma expansion layer on the target surface. When the drive laser beam comes later, the target has a substantial stand-off distance between the ablation front and the beam absorption region, in which the thermal smoothing effect is expected to take place, and then, the initial imprint of the laser irradiation nonuniformities can be significantly reduced. Stand-off distance is of great importance in the imprint mitigation. We measured the preformed plasma profile by using the x-ray side-on backlighting method. The preformed plasma was backlit by x rays and imaged onto an x-ray streak camera. The scale length of the preformed plasma was found to increase with duration of the soft x-ray irradiation. The expansion velocity was found to be 6×105 cm/s at an x-ray irradiation of 1×1011 W/cm2. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1315644
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