High-Speed Diagnostics In Laser Fusion Experiments

R. Sigel; A. G.M. Maaswinkel

doi:10.1117/12.968020

1 February 1985 High-Speed Diagnostics In Laser Fusion Experiments

R. Sigel, A. G.M. Maaswinkel

Proceedings Volume 0491, 16th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968020
Event: 16th International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, 1984, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Irradiation of dense matter by pulsed laser beams with the ultimate goal of achieving thermonuclear fusion conditions provides a challenge to high-speed diagnostics. The concentrated deposition of energy by laser pulses of typically nanosecond duration induces laser-plasma interaction phenomena and hydrodynamic motion which have to be diagnosed on a picosecond temporal and micrometre spatial scale. The high-speed diagnostics developed for this purpose, such as shadowgraphy and interferometry by probe laser beams in the visible, x-ray backlighting, time-resolved spectroscopy in the soft x-ray region, and x-ray framing, will be described and illustrated by experimental results.

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R. Sigel and A. G.M. Maaswinkel "High-Speed Diagnostics In Laser Fusion Experiments", Proc. SPIE 0491, 16th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, (1 February 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968020

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