HYDRODYNAMIC ASPECTS OF SELENIUM X-RAY LASER TARGETS

G. Charatis , G. Busch , C. Shepard , P. Campbell , M. Rosen

Recent experiments at KMS have been performed to investigate parameter variations of target component thickness, laser pulse duration and intensity, and one-sided vs two-sided irradiation in order to optimize the performance of the Livermore exploding foil selenium x-ray laser experiments. Preliminary experiments with selenium double foil targets were also conducted as a means of prolonging the duration and enlarging the spatial extent of the lasing conditions. Four-frame holographic interferometry was used in determining the time-dependence of densitiy profiles obtained by Abel inversion of the interferometric fringe field and comparisons were made to LASNEX code calculations.

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G. Charatis, G. Busch, C. Shepard, P. Campbell, M. Rosen. HYDRODYNAMIC ASPECTS OF SELENIUM X-RAY LASER TARGETS. Journal de Physique Colloques, 1986, 47 (C6), pp.C6-89-C6-98. ⟨10.1051/jphyscol:1986612⟩. ⟨jpa-00225855⟩