Experimental evidence of hydrodynamic instabilities in laser driven implosions
- 15 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 36 (4), 269-270
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.91449
Abstract
Aluminium coated microballoons have been imploded by a two‐beam short‐pulse Nd laser. The plasma has been examined by space‐resolved x‐ray spectroscopy which shows that x‐ray lines from the aluminium appear in emission from the implosion core. This suggests that the targets are hydrodynamically unstable, which is contrary to expectation for this exploding pusher mode. Possible experimental errors are eliminated.Keywords
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