Dynamics of a dense laboratory plasma jet investigated using soft x-ray laser interferometry

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Jul 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008phrve..78a6403g&link_type=abstract

Physical Review E, vol. 78, Issue 1, id. 016403

Physics

8

Plasma Diagnostic Techniques And Instrumentation, Interferometry, Plasma Simulation

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The formation and evolution of a collisional aluminum plasma jet created by optical laser irradiation of triangular grooves with pulses of 120ps duration at an intensity of 1×1012Wcm-2 were studied with experiments and simulations. Series of high-contrast soft x-ray laser interferograms obtained with a 46.9nm laser mapped the plasma density evolution of an initially narrow plasma jet that expands along the symmetry plane and evolves into a broader plasma plume with significant side lobes. Two-dimensional simulations performed using the radiation hydrodynamic code HYDRA reveal that the jet formation is initiated by accelerated material ablated from the vertex and is augmented by the continual sequential arrival of wall material along the symmetry plane, where it collides and is redirected outward. Radiative cooling is identified as an important process in maintaining the collimation of the jet. These results demonstrate that well collimated collisional plasma jets with parameters in a range of interest can be generated with low-energy laser pulses (<1J) , opening the possibility of studying relevant plasma phenomena in a small laboratory setting.

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