Energy transport in plasmas produced by a high brightness krypton flouride laser focused to a line

Axial and lateral transport of energy from a KrF laser line focus has been measured by analysis of x-ray images and from x-ray spectra emitted by a witness layer of NaF with varying overlay thicknesses. The ratio of the distance between the critical density surface and the ablation surface to the la...

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Main Authors: Al-Hadithi, Y, Tallents, G, Zhang, J, Key, M, Norreys, P, Kodama, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Inst of Physics 1994
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author Al-Hadithi, Y
Tallents, G
Zhang, J
Key, M
Norreys, P
Kodama, R
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description Axial and lateral transport of energy from a KrF laser line focus has been measured by analysis of x-ray images and from x-ray spectra emitted by a witness layer of NaF with varying overlay thicknesses. The ratio of the distance between the critical density surface and the ablation surface to the laser focal width controls lateral transport. The measured axial energy transport was compared to MEDUSA one-dimensional hydrodynamic code simulations with flux limited thermal conductively using an average atom post-processor for predicting spectral line intensities. An energy absorption of approx. 10% in the code gives agreement with the experimental axial penetration. Various measured line ratios of hydrogen - and helium-like Na and F have been investigated as temperature diagnostics in the NaF layer using the RATION code.
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spelling oxford-uuid:0424ef1a-1b97-4327-aa90-51074d8e7b022022-03-26T08:50:13ZEnergy transport in plasmas produced by a high brightness krypton flouride laser focused to a lineJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0424ef1a-1b97-4327-aa90-51074d8e7b02EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordAmerican Inst of Physics1994Al-Hadithi, YTallents, GZhang, JKey, MNorreys, PKodama, RAxial and lateral transport of energy from a KrF laser line focus has been measured by analysis of x-ray images and from x-ray spectra emitted by a witness layer of NaF with varying overlay thicknesses. The ratio of the distance between the critical density surface and the ablation surface to the laser focal width controls lateral transport. The measured axial energy transport was compared to MEDUSA one-dimensional hydrodynamic code simulations with flux limited thermal conductively using an average atom post-processor for predicting spectral line intensities. An energy absorption of approx. 10% in the code gives agreement with the experimental axial penetration. Various measured line ratios of hydrogen - and helium-like Na and F have been investigated as temperature diagnostics in the NaF layer using the RATION code.
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Key, M
Norreys, P
Kodama, R
Energy transport in plasmas produced by a high brightness krypton flouride laser focused to a line
title Energy transport in plasmas produced by a high brightness krypton flouride laser focused to a line
title_full Energy transport in plasmas produced by a high brightness krypton flouride laser focused to a line
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title_full_unstemmed Energy transport in plasmas produced by a high brightness krypton flouride laser focused to a line
title_short Energy transport in plasmas produced by a high brightness krypton flouride laser focused to a line
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