Abstract
The implosion of spherical-shell targets driven ablatively by six 1.05-μm laser beams at an irradiance of ∼ W has been studied by streak time-resolved x-ray shadowgraphy. Measurements of acceleration determined the ablation pressure. Departures from one-dimensional simulations showed increasingly degraded implosions as the shell aspect ratio was increased from 10 to 110 for shells with surface perturbations of .
- Received 30 July 1980
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.1801
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