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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 20, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4816032
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- U.S. DOE Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion [DE-FC52-08NA28302]
- University of Rochester
- New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
- DOE
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Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) growth experiments were performed on the OMEGA laser [T. R. Boehly et al., Opt. Commun. 133, 495 (1997)] using planar SiO2 targets seeded with a single mode 60-mu m wavelength perturbation driven at peak laser intensities up to 9 x 10(14) W/cm(2). These are the first RT measurements in SiO2 at conditions relevant to direct-drive inertial confinement fusion ignition. The measured average modulation growth rates agree with the 2-D hydrodynamics code DRACO, providing an important step in the development of target ablators that are robust to RT growth and hot- electron preheat considerations when driven at the intensities required to achieve thermonuclear ignition. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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