X-ray backlit imaging measurement of in-flight pusher density for an indirect drive capsule implosion

Conference · Mon May 06 04:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:244466

Kalantar, D H; Haan, S W; Hammel, B A ^[1]

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Both the efficiency of an implosion and the growth rate of hydrodynamic instability increase with the aspect ratio of an implosion. In order to study the physics of implosions with high Rayleigh-Taylor growth factors, we use doped ablators which should minimize x-ray preheat and shell decompression, and hence increase in-flight aspect ratio. We use x-ray backlighting techniques to image the indirectly-driven capsules. We record backlit 4.7 keV images of the full capsule throughout the implosion phase with 55 ps and 15 {mu}m resolution. We use these images to measure the in-flight aspect ratios for doped ablators, and we inferred the radial density profile as a function of time by Abel inverting the x-ray transmission profiles.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 244466
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC--123285; CONF-960543--10; ON: DE96010407
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
IMAGE PROCESSING
INDIRECT DRIVE LASER IMPLOSION
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
LASER TARGETS
NOVA FACILITY
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY
X RADIATION