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Modeling of annular-laser-beam-driven plasma jets from massive planar targets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

V. Kmetík ,
J. Limpouch ,
R. Liska  and
P. Váchal
V. Kmetík
Affiliation:
Institute of Plasma Physics, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic
J. Limpouch*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
R. Liska
Affiliation:
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
P. Váchal
Affiliation:
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: J. Limpouch, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Praha 1, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Production of sharply collimated high velocity outflows – plasma jets from massive planar targets by a single laser beam at PALS facility is clarified via numerical simulations. Since only a few experimental data on the intensity distribution in the interaction beam near the focus are available for the PALS facility, the laser beam profile was calculated by a numerical model of the laser system and the interaction optics. The obtained intensity profiles are used as the input for plasma dynamic simulations by our cylindrical two-dimensional fluid code PALE. Jet formation due to laser intensity profile with a minimum on the axis is demonstrated. The outflow collimation improves significantly for heavier elements, even when radiative cooling is omitted. Using an optimized interaction beam profile, a homogeneous jet with a length exceeding its diameter by several times may be reliably generated for applications in laboratory astrophysics and impact ignition studies.

Keywords

ALE fluid codeCollimated outflowsCylindrical cumulationLaboratory astrophysics
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 445 - 457
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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