Laser-produced plasma helium-like titanium Kα x-ray source and its application to Rayleighben-Taylor instability study

Several experiments are performed on the ShenGuang-II laser facility to investigate an x-ray source and test radiography concepts. X-ray lines emitted from laser-produced plasmas are the most practical means of generating these high intensity sources. By using a time-integrated space-resolved keV spectroscope and pinhole camera, potential helium-like titanium Kα x-ray backlighting (radiography) line source is studied as a function of laser wavelength, ratio of pre-pulse intensity to main pulse intensity, and laser intensity (from 7.25 to ～11.3× 10¹⁵ W/cm²⁾. One-dimensional radiography using a grid consisting of 5 μm Au wires on 16 μm period and the pinhole-assisted point projection is tested. The measurements show that the size of the helium-like titanium Kα source from a simple foil target is larger than 100 μm, and relative x-ray line emission conversion efficiency ξ_x from the incident laser light energy to helium-like titanium K-shell spectrum increases significantly with pre-pulse intensity increasing, increases rapidly with laser wavelength decreasing, and increases moderately with main laser intensity increasing. It is also found that a gold gird foils can reach an imaging resolution better than 5-μm featured with high contrast. It is further demonstrated that the pinhole-assisted point projection at such a level will be a novel two-dimensional imaging diagnostic technique for inertial confinement fusion experiments.     

高温烧蚀初始印记及其瑞利-泰勒不稳定性发展的研究

直接驱动惯性约束聚变中,高温烧蚀初始印记在压缩过程的不稳定性发展中起着重要作用.利用X射线针孔辅助点投影成像法,研究了不同波形激光脉冲驱动下CH平面靶及其瑞利-泰勒不稳定性发展的情况.结果表明,在相同驱动激光能量作用下,初始阶段激光强度越低,上升越缓慢,高温烧蚀初始印记引起的密度调制幅度越大.提高预脉冲强度能显著抑制高温烧蚀初始印记效应. 关键词： 高温烧蚀初始印记 激光脉冲形状 瑞利-泰勒不稳定性 针孔辅助点投影     

激光聚变内爆流体不稳定性基础问题研究进展

激光聚变有望一劳永逸地解决人类的能源问题,因而受到国际社会的普遍重视,一直是国际研究的前沿热点。目前实现激光惯性约束聚变所面临的最大科学障碍（属于内禀困难）是对内爆过程中高能量密度流体力学不稳定性引起的非线性流动的有效控制,对其研究涵盖高能量密度物理、等离子体物理、流体力学、计算科学、强冲击物理和高压原子物理等多个学科,同时还要具备大规模多物理多尺度多介质流动的数值模拟能力和高功率大型激光装置等研究条件。作为新兴研究课题,高能量密度非线性流动问题充满了各种新奇的现象亟待探索。此外,流体力学不稳定性及其引起的湍流混合,还是天体物理现象（如星系碰撞与合并、恒星演化、原始恒星的形成以及超新星爆炸）中的重要过程,涉及天体物理的一些核心研究内容。本文首先综述了高能量密度非线性流动研究的现状和进展,梳理了其中的挑战和机遇。然后介绍了传统中心点火激光聚变内爆过程发生的主要流体力学不稳定性,在大量分解和综合物理研究基础上,凝练出了目前制约美国国家点火装置（NIF）内爆性能的主要流体不稳定性问题。接下来,总结了国外激光聚变流体不稳定性实验物理的研究概况。最后,展示了内爆物理团队近些年在激光聚变内爆流体不稳定性基础性问题方面的主要研究进展。该团队一直从事激光聚变内爆非线性流动研究与控制,以及聚变靶物理研究与设计,注重理论探索和实验研究相结合,近年来在内爆重要流体力学不稳定性问题的解析理论、数值模拟和激光装置实验设计与数据分析等方面取得了一系列重要成果,有力地推动了该研究方向在国内的发展。     

Optimization of 4.7-keV X-ray titanium sources driven by 100-ps laser pulses

An experiment with thin titanium foils irradiated by two pulses delayed in time is conducted on the Shenguang-II laser facility.A prepulse induces an underdense plasma,2-ns later a main pulse(λ L = 0.35 μm,E L ≈ 120 J,τ L ≈ 100 ps) is injected into the underdense plasma and produces strong line emission from the titanium K shell(i.e.,He α at 4.7 keV).Data show that the intensity of 4.7-keV X-ray emission with the prepulse is approximately twice more than without the prepulse,and can be used as a backlighting source satisfying the diagnostic requirements for dense plasma probing.Highquality plasma images are obtained with the backlighting 4.7-keV X-rays in a Rayleigh-Taylor hydrodynamic instability experiment.     

Laser-produced plasma helium-like titanium Kα x-ray source and its application to Rayleigh-Taylor instability study

Several experiments are performed on the ShenGuang-II laser facility to investigate an x-ray source and test radiography concepts.X-ray lines emitted from laser-produced plasmas are the most practical means of generating these high intensity sources.By using a time-integrated space-resolved keV spectroscope and pinhole camera,potential helium-like titanium Kα x-ray backlighting (radiography) line source is studied as a function of laser wavelength,ratio of pre-pulse intensity to main pulse intensity,and laser intensity (from 7.25 to～11.3×10 15 W/cm 2).One-dimensional radiography using a grid consisting of 5 μm Au wires on 16 μm period and the pinhole-assisted point projection is tested.The measurements show that the size of the helium-like titanium Kα source from a simple foil target is larger than 100 μm,and relative x-ray line emission conversion efficiency ξ x from the incident laser light energy to heliumlike titanium K-shell spectrum increases significantly with pre-pulse intensity increasing,increases rapidly with laser wavelength decreasing,and increases moderately with main laser intensity increasing.It is also found that a gold gird foils can reach an imaging resolution better than 5-μm featured with high contrast.It is further demonstrated that the pinhole-assisted point projection at such a level will be a novel two-dimensional imaging diagnostic technique for inertial confinement fusion experiments.     

Directly driven Rayleigh—Taylor instability of modulated CH targets

Directly driven ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability of modulated CH targets was studied using the face- on X-ray radiography on the Shen-Guang II device. We obtained temporal evolution images of the R-T instability perturbation. The R-T instability growth factor has been obtained by using the methods of fast Fourier transform and seeking the difference of light intensity between the peak and the valley of the targets. Through comparison with the the theoretical simulation, we found that the experimental data had a good agreement with the theoretical simulation results before 1.8 ns, and was lower than the theoretical simulation results after that.     

CH调制靶RT不稳定性增长侧向诊断

流体力学不稳定性是惯性约束聚变中的重要物理问题之一，它直接影响靶丸的压缩效率和点火热斑的有效半径。特别是在激光直接驱动ICF技术路线中，流体力学不稳定性显得更为至关重要。通过分解实验，研究流体力学不稳定性的发展规律进而探索抑制流体力学不稳定性发展的途径，是ICF实验研究中的重要一环。本轮实验利用X射线针孔辅助点投影技术，通过侧向诊断方法，观测了CH平面调制靶在激光直接驱动下的不稳定性演化过程。     

类镍钽x射线激光实验研究

在神光II激光装置上进行了类镍钽近水窗x射线激光实验研究.利用基频、倍频联合驱动和双靶对接方案,在总能量400J的驱动激光能量下,获得了类镍钽4.48nm x射线激 光较强的输出,增益长度积达到5.5. 关键词： 类镍钽x射线激光 水窗 基频、倍频联合驱动     

金等离子体M带谱强度的定量测量

在"神光II"多束高功率激光装置上利用列阵透镜匀滑钕玻璃波长0.53μm的强激光幅照平面金(Au)靶时产生X射线,本文给出了X射线绝对转换效率ξx。研究了多束倍频激光叠加驱动靶形成X射线背景光源辐射金M壳层1.8—3.1Kev带谱的特性,获得了不同激光功率密度及不同角度驱动靶面等几种条件下X射线能谱的定量测量结果和能谱分布。     

铝平面调制靶的点投影静态诊断实验

针孔辅助X射线点投影成像是一种新兴的激光等离子体诊断技术。已经在神光Ⅱ装置第9路上开展了演示实验，验证这一诊断方法的可行性。为了将这一诊断方法逐步实用化，最终用于界面不稳定性实验研究中，开展了铝（Al）调制靶的静态成像实验。