5 papers
On the degradation of hot spot performance due to mid-to-high-mode hydrodynamic instabilities
Dongxue Liu, Jiaqin Dong, Yunxing Liu +5
In an ignited design of inertial confinement fusion, the role of mid-to-high-mode hydrodynamic instabilities in degrading hot-spot performance, beyond reducing temperature, remains…
Tunable high-charge relativistic electron beams via direct laser acceleration in hohlraum-preheated foam targets
Ziyao Wang, Jieru Ren, Zhigang Deng +28
Direct laser acceleration (DLA) in near-critical-density (NCD) plasmas can efficiently generate high-charge relativistic electron beams, yet beam parameters depend critically on pr…
A theoretical model for quantifying the imprinting sensitivity of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions
Dongxue Liu, Jiaqin Dong, Yunxing Liu +5
To quantify the sensitivity of diverse implosion designs to laser imprinting, we developed an equivalent perturbation model that maps laser imprinting as the initial target surface…
Efficiently Laser Driven Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Long Metal Wire
Shuoting Shao, Xiangbing Wang, Rong Huang +10
We experimentally demonstrate a novel scheme for efficiently generating intense terahertz (THz) surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on a sub-wavelength-diameter meter-long metal wire…
Structure of weakly collisional shock waves of multicomponent plasmas inside hohlraums of indirect inertial confinement fusions
Tianyi Liang, Dong Wu, Lifeng Wang +6
In laser-driven indirect inertial confinement fusion (ICF), a hohlraum--a cavity constructed from high-Z materials--serves the purpose of converting laser energy into thermal x-ray…