Impact of extended preplasma on energy coupling in kilojoule energy relativistic laser interaction with cone wire targets relevant to fast ignition

Cone-guided fast ignition laser fusion depends critically on details of the interaction of an intense laser pulse with the inside tip of a cone. Generation of relativistic electrons in the laser plasma interaction (LPI) with a gold cone and their subsequent transport into a copper wire have been stu...

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Main Authors: T Yabuuchi, R Mishra, C McGuffey, B Qiao, M S Wei, H Sawada, Y Sentoku, T Ma, D P Higginson, K U Akli, D Batani, H Chen, L A Gizzi, M H Key, A J Mackinnon, H S McLean, P A Norreys, P K Patel, R B Stephens, Y Ping, W Theobald, C Stoeckl, F N Beg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/015020