Effects of nonuniform illumination on implosion asymmetry in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.
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Target areal density (rhoR) asymmetries in OMEGA direct-drive spherical implosions are studied. The rms variation / for low-mode-number structure is approximately proportional to the rms variation of on-target laser intensity / with an amplification factor of approximately 1/2(C(r)-1), where C(r) is the capsule convergence ratio. This result has critical implications for future work on the National Ignition Facility as well as OMEGA.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 92 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004