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37287
Title
Plasma based x-ray lasers used for opacity and ablation rate measurements
Contributors
GJ Tallents
,
MH Edwards
,
P Mistry
,
DS Whittaker
,
N Booth
,
H Huang
,
GJ Pert
,
B Rus
,
T Mocek
,
M Kozlova
,
CLS Lewis
,
C McKenna
,
A Delseriey
,
M Notley
,
D Neely
Abstract
Utilizing thin targets, opacities of iron have been measured using x-ray lasers of photon energy 89 eV created by pumping with the VULCAN laser. The thin targets comprise a plastic substrate, a 50 nm thick iron layer and an overlay of 100 nm CH and are separately heated by spot focus laser pulses. We have demonstrated that X-ray laser brightness is sufficient to overcome the self-emission of hot plasma so that useful opacity measurements can be made. The transmission through the targets agrees generally with the calculated transmission from a fluid code simulation coupled to the TOPS plasma opacity data. The ablation of aluminum foil with a thin (50 nm) iron coating was also observed using a neon-like zinc x-ray laser of photon energy 58 eV at the PALS centre. The x-ray laser was used to probe sample targets as they were heated by a separate laser beam of 10 J, focused to a 100 micron diameter spot. A simple calculation of the rate of ablation of the iron gives x-ray laser transmission through the targets in agreement with experiment. We suggest that x-ray laser probing can be a useful diagnostic of ablation rates in laser-plasmas.
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CCLRC
,
CLF
Keywords
MODEL
,
ABSORPTION-MEASUREMENTS
,
IRON PLASMA
,
SATURATION
,
ABUNDANCE
,
NEON
,
CLF 2006-2007
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English (EN)
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Journal Article
Superstrong Fields in Plasmas 827 (2006): 353-364.
2006
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