Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth rates in targets accelerated with a laser beam smoothed by induced spatial incoherence
- 22 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (25), 2672-2675
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.2672
Abstract
Growth rates of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in foils accelerated with a laser beam smoothed by induced spatial incoherence were measured and compared with hydrodynamic code simulations. Modes with 150- and 100-μm wavelengths grew at predicted rates. However, no growth was experimentally observed at a 50-μm wavelength. Code simulations suggest that induced spatial incoherence can influence the 50-μm Rayleigh-Taylor mode by delaying the start of its growth.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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