Saturation of Laser Imprint on Ablatively Driven Plastic Targets
- 8 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (10), 1861-1864
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.1861
Abstract
The imprinting of areal density perturbations on thick planar plastic targets has been studied numerically and analytically. Simulations predict that the target modulation saturates while still in a small-amplitude regime. General scaling laws relating saturation times and amplitudes to mean laser drive and wavelength, and perturbation amplitude and wavelength, are summarized from the simulations. A linear gasdynamic model is used to study the physical mechanisms responsible for the saturation, and provides strong evidence that mass ablation is the dominant stabilizing influence.Keywords
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