Gasbag targets are useful for the research of laser-plasma interactions in inertial confinement fusion,especially in the laser overlapping regime.We report that on the Shengguang-II laser facility,millimeter−scale pla...Gasbag targets are useful for the research of laser-plasma interactions in inertial confinement fusion,especially in the laser overlapping regime.We report that on the Shengguang-II laser facility,millimeter−scale plasmas are successfully generated by four 0.35µm laser beams using a gasbag target.Multiple diagnostics are applied to characterize the millimeter−scale plasmas in detail.The images from the x-ray pinhole cameras confirm that millimeter-scale plasmas are indeed created.An optical Thomson scattering system diagnoses the electron temperature of the CH filling plasmas by probing the thermal ion-acoustic fluctuations,which indicates that the electron temperature has a 600 eV flat roof in 0.7–1.3 ns.Another key parameter,i.e.the electron density of the millimeter-scale plasmas,is inferred by the spectrum of the back stimulated Raman scattering of an additional 0.53µm laser beam.The inferred electron density keeps stable at 0.1nc in early time consistent with the controlled filling pressure and splits into a higher density in late time,which is attributed to the blast wave entering into the SRS interaction region.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 11005097the Project 9140C6801010901 of China Academy of Engineering Physics+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 11175179the Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No KJCX2-YW-N36.
文摘Gasbag targets are useful for the research of laser-plasma interactions in inertial confinement fusion,especially in the laser overlapping regime.We report that on the Shengguang-II laser facility,millimeter−scale plasmas are successfully generated by four 0.35µm laser beams using a gasbag target.Multiple diagnostics are applied to characterize the millimeter−scale plasmas in detail.The images from the x-ray pinhole cameras confirm that millimeter-scale plasmas are indeed created.An optical Thomson scattering system diagnoses the electron temperature of the CH filling plasmas by probing the thermal ion-acoustic fluctuations,which indicates that the electron temperature has a 600 eV flat roof in 0.7–1.3 ns.Another key parameter,i.e.the electron density of the millimeter-scale plasmas,is inferred by the spectrum of the back stimulated Raman scattering of an additional 0.53µm laser beam.The inferred electron density keeps stable at 0.1nc in early time consistent with the controlled filling pressure and splits into a higher density in late time,which is attributed to the blast wave entering into the SRS interaction region.
