Progress in indirect and direct-drive planar experiments on hydrodynamic instabilities at the ablation front
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- Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Arpajon (France)
- Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Arpajon (France); Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence (France). Center for Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
- Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence (France). Center for Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA)
- Osaka Univ. (Japan). Inst. of Laser Engineering
- Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France)
- Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Is-sur-Tille (France). Valduc Centre for Nuclear Studies
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation). P. N. Lebedev Physical Inst.
Understanding and mitigating hydrodynamic instabilities and the fuel mix are the key elements for achieving ignition in Inertial Confinement Fusion. Cryogenic indirect-drive implosions on the National Ignition Facility have evidenced that the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) is a driver of the hot spot mix. This motivates the switch to a more flexible higher adiabat implosion design [O. A. Hurricane et al., Phys. Plasmas 21, 056313 (2014)]. The shell instability is also the main candidate for performance degradation in low-adiabat direct drive cryogenic implosions [Goncharov et al., Phys. Plasmas 21, 056315 (2014)]. This paper reviews recent results acquired in planar experiments performed on the OMEGA laser facility and devoted to the modeling and mitigation of hydrodynamic instabilities at the ablation front. In application to the indirect-drive scheme, we describe results obtained with a specific ablator composition such as the laminated ablator or a graded-dopant emulator. In application to the direct drive scheme, we discuss experiments devoted to the study of laser imprinted perturbations with special phase plates. The simulations of the Richtmyer-Meshkov phase reversal during the shock transit phase are challenging, and of crucial interest because this phase sets the seed of the RTI growth. Recent works were dedicated to increasing the accuracy of measurements of the phase inversion. We conclude by presenting a novel imprint mitigation mechanism based on the use of underdense foams. Lastly, the foams induce laser smoothing by parametric instabilities thus reducing the laser imprint on the CH foil.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1414345
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 22403367
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL--742951
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 21; ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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