Open AccessLDRD Final report
Author(s) -
Richard E. Stewart,
D. Price,
R. Shepherd,
Warren J. White,
R. S. Walling,
René Moré
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/71385
Subject(s) - plasma , laser , absorption (acoustics) , work (physics) , pulse (music) , atomic physics , nuclear engineering , materials science , optics , physics , nuclear physics , engineering , thermodynamics , detector
The goal of this project is to develop a 100-fs pulse length laser capable of heating solid density plasmas to near-kilovolt temperatures before hydrodynamic decompression of the target can take place, and to experimentally determine the properties of these plasmas with it. The authors have successfully developed the laser for this work and measured plasma production and laser absorption with it. This work has demonstrated the capacity to produce solid-density plasmas. Future experiments are described