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- Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratoryUS4 papers
- Princeton UniversityUS4 papers
- Imperial College LondonGB3 papers
- Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUS3 papers
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUS2 papers
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- Fusion AcademyUS1 paper
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7 papers
Precision mapping of laser-driven magnetic fields and their evolution in high-energy-density plasmas
Lan Gao, PM Nilson, IV Igumenshchev +4
Magnetic fields generated by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability were measured in laser-accelerated planar foils using ultrafast proton radiography. Thin plastic foils were irradiated…
Observation of Self-Similarity in the Magnetic Fields Generated by the Ablative Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
L. Gao, P. M. Nilson, I. V. Igumenschev +10
Magnetic fields generated by the nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor growth of laser-seeded three-dimensional broadband perturbations were measured in laser-accelerated planar targets using…
Magnetic field generation by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in laser-driven planar plastic targets
L Gao, PM Nilson, IV Igumenschev +7
Magnetic fields generated by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability were measured in laser-accelerated planar foils using ultrafast proton radiography. Thin plastic foils were irradiated…
Ultrafast proton radiography of the magnetic fields generated by a laser-driven coil current
Lan Gao, Hantao Ji, Gennady Fiksel +3
Magnetic fields generated by a current flowing through a U-shaped coil connecting two copper foils were measured using ultrafast proton radiography. Two 1.25 kJ, 1-ns laser p…
Absolute Calibration of a Time-Resolved High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer for the National Ignition Facility (invited)
Lan Gao, B. F. Kraus, K. W. Hill +10
A high resolution, Diagnostic Instrument Manipulator (DIM)-based x-ray Bragg crystal spectrometer has been calibrated for and deployed at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to di…
Mega-Gauss Plasma Jet Creation Using a Ring of Laser Beams
L. Gao, E. Liang, Y. Lu +11
Using 20 OMEGA laser beams at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, to irradiate a flat plastic target in a hollow ring configuration, we created supersonic…