激光驱动准等熵压缩透明窗口LiF的透明性

LiF在激光驱动高压实验中是比较常见的窗口材料, 其在冲击下透射或反射可见诊断光是作为窗口材料的重要特性. 在神光III原型激光装置上开展了带LiF窗口的铝样品准等熵压缩实验, 采用任意反射面速度干涉仪诊断获得准等熵压缩样品(CH/Al/LiF)的反射率. 实验结果表明在准等熵压缩后期反射率诊断出现致盲现象. 为此, 建立了带透明窗口的样品对诊断光的反射率模型, 模型考虑了窗口LiF压缩后透明性变化. 模型计算的CH/Al/LiF样品对可见光的反射率时间演化过程与实验结果符合较好. 研究结果表明: LiF中压缩波追赶逐渐形成强冲击波, 显著降低了LiF的透明性, 并最终发生致盲现象; 第一性原理方法所给出的LiF的能带间隙偏低1–2 eV; 该实验中, LiF的透明性完全消失时, LiF中波头处的温度约为1 eV, 压力为2–3 Mbar.

Optical transparency of transparent window LiF in laser-driven quasi-isentropic compression experiment

LiF is often used as a window in laser-driven shock experiments, which can transmit and reflect visible probe laser. Researches of LiF transparency almost focus on its optical reflectivity compressed by strong shock, but there is almost no research on its optical transmissivity compressed by weak shock. In order to study the optical transmissivity of LiF, the quasi-isentropic compression experiment is carried out on the ShenGuang-III prototype laser facility, in which the velocity interferometer system for any reflector is used to diagnose the optical reflectivity of the quasi-isentropic compression sample CH/Al/LiF. The experimental results indicate that the velocity interferometer fringes are missing in the late stage of this experiment. The probe laser should penetrate LiF before it hits the rear surface of aluminum and the laser reflected by aluminum should penetrate LiF before it is collected by the velocity interferometer system for any reflector. Therefore, the reflectivity diagnosed by the velocity interferometer system for any reflector is the product of the optical reflectivity of aluminum and the optical transmissivity of LiF under the experimental condition. However, there is no research about the optical transmissivity model of thick LiF compressed by laser-driven shock. In this paper, we develop a transmissivity model for transparent window LiF and simulate the optical reflectivity of sample CH/Al/LiF. Firstly, we simulate the temperature and density of the sample by the code for one-dimensional multigroup radiation hydrodynamics (MULTI-1D). Then, based on the resulting temperature and density, we simulate the optical reflectivity of the sample by using the optical reflectivity model of aluminum and the optical transmissivity model of LiF. Without considering the transparency of LiF, the simulated result indicates that there is no signal missing in the late stage, which is different from the experimental result. By considering the transparency of LiF, the simulated result is in good agreement with the experimental result. The simulated result indicates that the formation of the strong shock, because of the later shock's catching up with the early one, obviously reduces the optical transparency of LiF and finally causes the velocity interferometer fringes to disappear. The simulated result also indicates that the energy gap of LiF calculated from density-functional theory is 1-2 eV. In this experiment, when LiF becomes opaque, its temperature is 1 eV and its pressure is 2-3 Mbar.