Author/Authors :
Town، نويسنده , , R.P.J. and Chen، نويسنده , , C. and Cottrill، نويسنده , , L.A. and Key، نويسنده , , M.H. and Kruer، نويسنده , , W.L. and Langdon، نويسنده , , A.B. and Lasinski، نويسنده , , B.F. and Snavely، نويسنده , , R.A. and Still، نويسنده , , C.H. and Tabak، نويسنده , , M. and Welch، نويسنده , , D.R. and Wilks، نويسنده , , S.C.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
A crucial issue for the viability of the fast ignition approach to inertial fusion energy is the transport of the ignition pulse energy from the critical surface to the high-density compressed fuel. Experiments have characterized this transport through the interaction of short pulse, high intensity lasers with solid-density targets containing thin K α fluorescence layers. These experiments show a reasonably well-collimated beam, although with a significantly larger radius than the incident laser beam. We report on LSP calculations of these experiments, which show reasonable agreement with the experimental observations.
Keywords :
Laser light absorption in plasmas , fast ignition , Intense-particle beams , plasma simulation
