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Title: Pump-depletion dynamics and saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in shock ignition relevant experiments

Abstract

As an alternative inertial confinement fusion scheme, shock ignition requires a strong converging shock driven by a high-intensity laser pulse to ignite a pre-compressed fusion capsule. Understanding nonlinear laser-plasma instabilities is crucial to assess and improve the laser-shock energy coupling. Recent experiments conducted on the OMEGA EP laser facility have for the first time demonstrated that such instabilities can 100% deplete the first 0.5 ns of the high-intensity laser. Here, analyses of the observed laser-generated blast wave suggest that this pump-depletion starts at 0.02 critical density and progresses to 0.1-0.2 critical density, which is also confirmed by the time-resolved stimulated Raman backscattering spectra. The pump-depletion dynamics can be explained by the breaking of ion-acoustic waves in stimulated Brillouin scattering. Such pump-depletion would inhibit the collisional laser energy absorption but may benefit the generation of hot electrons with moderate temperatures for electron shock ignition.

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  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  2. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
  4. Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence (France)
  5. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL)
  6. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1797937
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0014666; SC0012316; NA0002730; NA0003600
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review E
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

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Zhang, S., Li, J., Krauland, C. M., Beg, F. N., Muller, S., Theobald, W., Palastro, J., Filkins, T., Turnbull, D., Haberberger, D., Ren, C., Betti, R., Stoeckl, C., Campbell, E. M., Trela, J., Batani, D., Scott, R. H., and Wei, M. S. Pump-depletion dynamics and saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in shock ignition relevant experiments. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physreve.103.063208.
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Zhang, S., Li, J., Krauland, C. M., Beg, F. N., Muller, S., Theobald, W., Palastro, J., Filkins, T., Turnbull, D., Haberberger, D., Ren, C., Betti, R., Stoeckl, C., Campbell, E. M., Trela, J., Batani, D., Scott, R. H., & Wei, M. S. Pump-depletion dynamics and saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in shock ignition relevant experiments. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.103.063208
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Zhang, S., Li, J., Krauland, C. M., Beg, F. N., Muller, S., Theobald, W., Palastro, J., Filkins, T., Turnbull, D., Haberberger, D., Ren, C., Betti, R., Stoeckl, C., Campbell, E. M., Trela, J., Batani, D., Scott, R. H., and Wei, M. S. Wed . "Pump-depletion dynamics and saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in shock ignition relevant experiments". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.103.063208. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1797937.
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@article{osti_1797937,
title = {Pump-depletion dynamics and saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in shock ignition relevant experiments},
author = {Zhang, S. and Li, J. and Krauland, C. M. and Beg, F. N. and Muller, S. and Theobald, W. and Palastro, J. and Filkins, T. and Turnbull, D. and Haberberger, D. and Ren, C. and Betti, R. and Stoeckl, C. and Campbell, E. M. and Trela, J. and Batani, D. and Scott, R. H. and Wei, M. S.},
abstractNote = {As an alternative inertial confinement fusion scheme, shock ignition requires a strong converging shock driven by a high-intensity laser pulse to ignite a pre-compressed fusion capsule. Understanding nonlinear laser-plasma instabilities is crucial to assess and improve the laser-shock energy coupling. Recent experiments conducted on the OMEGA EP laser facility have for the first time demonstrated that such instabilities can 100% deplete the first 0.5 ns of the high-intensity laser. Here, analyses of the observed laser-generated blast wave suggest that this pump-depletion starts at 0.02 critical density and progresses to 0.1-0.2 critical density, which is also confirmed by the time-resolved stimulated Raman backscattering spectra. The pump-depletion dynamics can be explained by the breaking of ion-acoustic waves in stimulated Brillouin scattering. Such pump-depletion would inhibit the collisional laser energy absorption but may benefit the generation of hot electrons with moderate temperatures for electron shock ignition.},
doi = {10.1103/physreve.103.063208},
journal = {Physical Review E},
number = 6,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Wed Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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