Streaked optical pyrometer system for laser-driven shock-wave experiments on OMEGA
- 1 March 2007
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 78 (3), 034903
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2712189
Abstract
The temperature of laser-driven shock waves is of interest to inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density physics. We report on a streaked optical pyrometer that measures the self-emission of laser-driven shocks simultaneously with a velocity interferometer system for any reflector (VISAR). Together these diagnostics are used to obtain the temporally and spatially resolved temperatures of approximately megabar shocks driven by the OMEGA laser. We provide a brief description of the diagnostic and how it is used with VISAR. Key spectral calibration results are discussed and important characteristics of the recording system are presented.Keywords
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