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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5023008
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- U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
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High laser energy (>1.2 MJ) implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility show that low mode implosion symmetry is highly dependent on an expanding high-Z wall bubble plasma feature. The bubble is caused by the early time deposition of laser beams incident on the interior near the entrance of the cylindrical hohlraum (outer cone beams). It absorbs beams designated for the waist of the hohlraum (inner cone beams) causing a redistribution of x-ray flux on the capsule. From measurements, we are able to quantify the absorption and expansion of this bubble. Measurements show that the resulting hot spot is more oblate when there is more inner beam absorption in the bubble. We find absorption in the bubble to be between 51 +/- 3% and 62 +/- 2%. This bubble absorption is found to evolve predictably as a function of the early time outer cone laser pulse fluence and the pulse length. From this, a phenomenological model of the effective drive symmetry and subsequent implosion shape is found indicating a very strong dependence of implosion shape on early time laser fluence and laser pulse duration. Published by AIP Publishing.
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