High planarity x-ray drive for ultrafast shockless-compression experiments
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94550 (United States)
A spatially planar ({delta}time/time{approx}0.2%) longitudinal stress drive extending over millimeter scale lengths is used to shocklessly compress an aluminum sample to a peak stress of 210 GPa over nanosecond time scales. Direct laser irradiation onto the inner wall of an Au halfraum creates an x ray distribution with a near-uniform blackbody temperature of up to 137 eV. The x rays ablate material from a low-Z foil in a region of planarity closely matched to the diameter of the halfraum. The resultant ablatively driven shock is converted into a ramp-stress-wave in a secondary aluminum target through unloading across an intermediate vacuum gap. Higher peak stresses and shorter associated risetimes result from increasing input laser energy. Ramp-compression experiments can provide single shot equation-of-state data close to the isentrope, information on the kinetics of phase transformations, and material strength at high pressures.
- OSTI ID:
- 20975091
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 14, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2712450; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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