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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 25, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5047943
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- U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- General Atomics [DE-NA0001808]
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Despite the extensive work done to characterize and improve the smoothness of ablator materials used in inertial confinement fusion (ICF), features indicative of seeded instability growth in these materials are still observed. A two-dimensional imaging velocimetry technique has been used on Omega to measure the velocity non-uniformities of shock fronts launched by indirect drive in the three ablator materials of current interest, glow-discharge polymer, beryllium, and high-density carbon ablators. Observed features are deviations from shock front planarity with amplitudes of a few tens of nanometers, local velocity variations of a few tens of m/s, and transverse spatial scales ranging from 5 to 200 mu m. These data will help develop a full understanding of the effects of surface topography, dynamic material response, and internal heterogeneities on the stability of ICF capsules. For all three ablators, we have quantified perturbations at amplitudes that can dominate conventional surface roughness seeds to hydrodynamic instability. Published by AIP Publishing.
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