Influence of Nonuniform Laser Intensities on Ablatively Accelerated Targets
- 25 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (4), 253-256
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.253
Abstract
The effect of a nonuniform laser beam on the ablative acceleration of thin foils is investigated by using the fast2d laser-shell simulation code. The results show that laser nonuniformities with scale lengths greater than the distance from the ablation surface to the critical surface would have a severe impact on drive pressure symmetry and hence on pellet gain.Keywords
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