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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 19, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4771593
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain [ENE2009-09276]
- BMBF of Germany
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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An analytical model for the ablation driven by hot electrons is presented. The hot electrons are assumed to be generated during the high intensity laser spike used to produce the ignitor shock wave in the shock ignition driven inertial fusion concept, and to carry on the absorbed laser energy in its totality. Efficient energy coupling requires to keep the critical surface sufficiently close to the ablation front and this goal can be achieved for high laser intensities provided that the laser wavelength is short enough. Scaling laws for the ablation pressure and the other relevant magnitudes of the ablation cloud are found in terms of the laser and target parameters. The effect of the preformed plasma assembled by the compression pulse, previous to the ignitor, is also discussed. It is found that a minimum ratio between the compression and the ignitor pulses would be necessary for the adequate matching of the corresponding scale lengths. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4771593]
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