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9 June 2011 Investigation of laser plasmas relevant to shock ignition at PALS
J. Nejdl, M. Kozlová, M. Sawicka, D. Margarone, M. Krus, J. Prokupek, B. Rus, D. Batani, L. Antonelli, A. Patria, O. Ciricosta, C. Cecchetti, P. Koester, L. Labate, A. Giulietti, L. A. Gizzi, A. Moretti, M. Richetta, G. Schurtz, X. Ribeyre, M. Lafon, C. Spindloe, T. O'Dell
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Abstract
We present the results of an experiment concerning laser-plasma interaction in the regime relevant to shock ignition. The interaction of high-intensity frequency tripled laser pulse with CH plasma preformed by lower intensity pre-pulse on fundamental wavelength of the kJ-class iodine laser was investigated in the planar geometry in order to estimate the coupling of the laser energy to the shock wave or parametric instabilities such as stimulated Raman or Brillouin scattering, or to the fast electrons. First the complete characterization of the hydrodynamic parameters of preformed plasma was made using crystal spectrometer to estimate the electron temperature and XUV probe to resolve the electron density profile close to the critical density region. The other part of the experiment consisted of the shock chronometry, calorimetry of the back-scattered light and hard X-ray spectrometry to evaluate the coupling to different processes. The preliminary analysis of the measurements showed rather low energy transfer of the high-intensity pulse to back-scattered light (< 5%) and no traces of any significant hot electron production were found in the X-ray spectra.
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J. Nejdl, M. Kozlová, M. Sawicka, D. Margarone, M. Krus, J. Prokupek, B. Rus, D. Batani, L. Antonelli, A. Patria, O. Ciricosta, C. Cecchetti, P. Koester, L. Labate, A. Giulietti, L. A. Gizzi, A. Moretti, M. Richetta, G. Schurtz, X. Ribeyre, M. Lafon, C. Spindloe, and T. O'Dell "Investigation of laser plasmas relevant to shock ignition at PALS", Proc. SPIE 8080, Diode-Pumped High Energy and High Power Lasers; ELI: Ultrarelativistic Laser-Matter Interactions and Petawatt Photonics; and HiPER: the European Pathway to Laser Energy, 80802B (9 June 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892321
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KEYWORDS
Plasmas

Electrons

Pulsed laser operation

Spectroscopy

Charge-coupled devices

X-rays

Crystals

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