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Title: Understanding the effects of laser imprint on plastic-target implosions on OMEGA

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Understanding the effects of laser imprint on target performance is critical to the success of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion. Directly measuring the disruption caused by laser imprints to the imploding shell and hot-spot formation, in comparison with multidimensional radiation–hydrodynamic simulations, can provide a clear picture of how laser nonuniformities cause target performance to degrade. With the recently developed x-ray self-emission imaging technique and the state-of-the-art physics models recently implemented in the two-dimensional hydrocode DRACO, a systematic study of laser-imprint effects on warm target implosions on OMEGA has been performed using both experimental results and simulations. By varying the laser-picket intensity, the imploding shells were set at different adiabats (from α = 2 to α = 6). As the shell adiabats decreased, it was observed that (1) the measured shell thickness at the time the hot spot lit up became larger than the uniform one-dimensional (1-D) predictions; (2) the hot-spot core emitted earlier than the corresponding 1-D predictions; (3) the measured neutron yield first increased then decreased as the shell adiabat α was reduced; and (4) the hot-spot size reduced as α decreased for cases where SSD (smoothing by spectral dispersion) was on but became larger for low-α shots in casesmore » where SSD was off. Most of these experimental observations are well reproduced by DRACO simulations with laser imprints including modes up to λmax = 200. In addition, these studies identify the importance of laser imprint as the major source of degrading target performance for OMEGA implosions of adiabat α ≤ 3. Mitigating laser imprints is required to improve low-α target performance.« less

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  1. Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
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Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
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OSTI ID: 1328444
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Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
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Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; neutrons; x-ray imaging; thermal models; inertial confinement; cameras

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Hu, S. X., Michel, D. T., Davis, A. K., Betti, R., Radha, P. B., Campbell, E. M., Froula, D. H., and Stoeckl, C. Understanding the effects of laser imprint on plastic-target implosions on OMEGA. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4962993.
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Hu, S. X., Michel, D. T., Davis, A. K., Betti, R., Radha, P. B., Campbell, E. M., Froula, D. H., & Stoeckl, C. Understanding the effects of laser imprint on plastic-target implosions on OMEGA. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4962993
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Hu, S. X., Michel, D. T., Davis, A. K., Betti, R., Radha, P. B., Campbell, E. M., Froula, D. H., and Stoeckl, C. Mon . "Understanding the effects of laser imprint on plastic-target implosions on OMEGA". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4962993. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1328780.
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@article{osti_1328780,
title = {Understanding the effects of laser imprint on plastic-target implosions on OMEGA},
author = {Hu, S. X. and Michel, D. T. and Davis, A. K. and Betti, R. and Radha, P. B. and Campbell, E. M. and Froula, D. H. and Stoeckl, C.},
abstractNote = {Understanding the effects of laser imprint on target performance is critical to the success of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion. Directly measuring the disruption caused by laser imprints to the imploding shell and hot-spot formation, in comparison with multidimensional radiation–hydrodynamic simulations, can provide a clear picture of how laser nonuniformities cause target performance to degrade. With the recently developed x-ray self-emission imaging technique and the state-of-the-art physics models recently implemented in the two-dimensional hydrocode DRACO, a systematic study of laser-imprint effects on warm target implosions on OMEGA has been performed using both experimental results and simulations. By varying the laser-picket intensity, the imploding shells were set at different adiabats (from α = 2 to α = 6). As the shell adiabats decreased, it was observed that (1) the measured shell thickness at the time the hot spot lit up became larger than the uniform one-dimensional (1-D) predictions; (2) the hot-spot core emitted earlier than the corresponding 1-D predictions; (3) the measured neutron yield first increased then decreased as the shell adiabat α was reduced; and (4) the hot-spot size reduced as α decreased for cases where SSD (smoothing by spectral dispersion) was on but became larger for low-α shots in cases where SSD was off. Most of these experimental observations are well reproduced by DRACO simulations with laser imprints including modes up to λmax = 200. In addition, these studies identify the importance of laser imprint as the major source of degrading target performance for OMEGA implosions of adiabat α ≤ 3. Mitigating laser imprints is required to improve low-α target performance.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4962993},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 10,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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