Title :
Soft x-ray laser interferometry study of dense plasma jet collimation
Author :
Grava, J. ; Ryan, D.P. ; Purvis, M.A. ; Filevich, J. ; Shlyaptsev, V.N. ; Rocca, J.J. ; Moon, S.J. ; Dunn, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
Soft x-ray laser interferometry and hydrodynamic simulations were used to study the increase in collimation of laboratory plasma jets created with low energy (⇐ 1 J) short laser pulses irradiating target of varying atomic number.
Keywords :
X-ray lasers; collimators; light interferometry; plasma density; plasma diagnostics; plasma jets; plasma simulation; atomic number; dense plasma jet collimation; hydrodynamic simulations; laboratory plasma jets; low energy short laser pulses; soft X-ray laser interferometry; plasma diagnostics; plasma jets; soft x-ray laser interferometry; soft x-ray lasers;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698897
