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Energy transport experiments at Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

K. A. Tanaka
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
Y. Kato
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
S. Nakai
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
H. Shiraga
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
T. Yabe
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
T. Yamanaka
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
T. Endo
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
R. Kodama
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.
C. Yamanaka
Affiliation:
Institute for Laser Technology, Suita, Osaka 565 Japan.

Abstract

Emissions from the rear side of the targets were temporally resolved by irradiating an ultraviolet (UV) laser on Al and Au thin targets. A difference was clearly observed between the above two targets. Given the fact that absorbed laser energy is converted with a very high efficiency to soft x-rays in a high Z plasma, a characteristic emission peak only observed for Au targets was attributed to the effect of soft x-ray energy transport. The ablation pressures estimated from the emissions indicate that the pressure scaling for Au is close to the one by x-ray radiation rather than by a UV laser. With soft x-ray irradiation, energy transport in A1 foils was also studied. An ablation pressure was estimated by the shock speed.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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