Development of laser driven implosions of DT filled shells as thermonuclear particle sources
| Autor: | M. Savage, AP Fews, M. J. Lamb |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Thermonuclear fusion
Materials science business.industry Implosion Plasma Laser Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention symbols.namesake Optics Physics::Plasma Physics law Spectral width symbols Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Particle Central Laser Facility Electrical and Electronic Engineering Physical and Theoretical Chemistry business Doppler effect |
| Zdroj: | Optics Communications. 98:159-171 |
| ISSN: | 0030-4018 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0030-4018(93)90775-z |
| Popis: | We have carried out a systematic investigation of implosions of high aspect ratio DT filled shells at the Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. This study has developed directly driven implosions as sources of thermonuclear particles to probe routinely other laser produced plasmas. Maximum particle yields of 5×109 have been achieved. Random phase plates smoothed drive beams were used to improve significantly the uniformity of the implosion, producing core thermonuclear emission regions of ∼ 20 μm and a Doppler limited α-particle spectral width of 1–5 keV. A primary aim of this work is to apply these implosions as sources of particles in the study of Rayleigh-Taylor instability. |
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