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D. Woods, J. Foster, R. Wallace, J. Holder, B. MacGowan, C. Haynam, E. Moses, S. Dixit, D. Kalantar, H. Robey, W. Hsing, S. Glendinning, B. Van Wonterghem, S. V. Weber, A. Nikitin, B. Wilde, P. Rosen, P. Stry, N. Lanier, B. E. Blue, V. Rekow· 2004
The production of supersonic jets of material via the interaction of a strong shock wave with a spatially localized density perturbation is a common feature of inertial confinement fusion and astrophysics. The behavior of two-dimensional (2D) supersonic jets has previously been investigated in detail [J.M. Foster et. al, Phys. Plasmas 9, 2251 (2002)]. In three-dimensions (3D), however, there are new aspects to the behavior of supersonic jets in compressible media. In this paper, the commissioning activities on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) [J.A. Paisner et al., Laser Focus World 30, 75 (1994)] to enable hydrodynamic experiments will be presented as well as the results from the first series of hydrodynamic experiments. In these experiments, two of the first four beams of NIF are used to drive a 40 Mbar shock wave into millimeter scale aluminum targets backed by 100 mg/cc carbon aerogel foam. The remaining beams are delayed in time and are used to provide a point-projection x-ray backlighter source for diagnosing the three-dimensional structure of the jet evolution resulting from a variety of 2D and 3D features. Comparisons between data and simulations using several codes will be presented.
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R. Collins, D. Lee, R. Griffith, J. Duncan, J. Edwards, J. McBride, C. Marshall, D. Woods, J. Kline, J. Cox, A. Greenwood, L. J. Suter, Schneider (M.), R. Heeter, R. Turner, E. Williams, B. Cohen, K. R. Manes, T. Hall, F. Weber, J. Murray, F. Cooper, T. James, P. Whitman, M. Monteil, R. Olson, S. Montelongo, R. Berger, P. Arnold, R. Bryant, J. Moody, C. Powell, P. Young, J. MacDonald, J. Neumann, K. Williams, E. Dodd, D. Bradley, J. Eggert, P. Celliers, D. Munro, S. Goldman, R. Saunders, K. Campbell, O. Jones, B. Thomas, S. Johnson, M. Bowers, A. Stephens, M. Singh, R. Rinnert, D. Montgomery, T. Perry, G. Ross, J. Kamperschroer, A. Lee, B. Young, J. Holder, T. McCarville, S. Gardner, J. Workman, J. Celeste, D. Hinkel, E. Ng, P. Watts, D. Pellinen, A. Ellis, M. Stevenson, L. J. Atherton, G. Erbert, C. Haynam, B. Felker, M. Rhodes, Hermann (M.), J. Kimbrough, M. Newton, S. Dixit, L. McGrew, J. Fernandez, I. Reinbachs, A. Mackinnon, P. Wegner, O. L. Landen, B. Riordan, D. Kalantar, K. Piston, S. Glenzer, E. Dewald, D. Braun, R. Costa, G. Heestand, A. E. Koniges, R. Shepherd, G. Glendinning, F. Hansen, S. Langer, M. Henesian, H. Baldis, R. Kirkwood, J. Menapace, S. Burkhart, B. Van Wonterghem, S. Weber, T. Parham, T. Kelleher, D. Latray, G. Magelssen, G. Tietbohl, S. Mahavandi, A. Nikitin, B. Langdon, R. Vidal, C. Gautier, B. Wilde, S. Buckman, J. Bourgade, D. Lund, D. Hargrove, P. Rosen, J. Emig, A. Warrick, S. Grace, M. Poole, P. Stry, M. Spaeth, S. Huber, G. Parrish, N. Lanier, E. Padilla, B. Hegelich, B. Kauffman, D. Bower, C. Constantin, R. Coker, E. Mertens, C. Niemann, B. Blue, S. Compton, D. Froula, G. Holtmeier, R. Bonanno, T. Kohut, F. Holdner, S. Shiromizu, D. Voloshin, G. Bardsley, J. Fornes, G. Frieders, T. Labiak, P. Opsahl, V. Robert, K. Winward, K. Work· 2005
A first set of laser-plasma interaction, hohlraum energetics and hydrodynamic experiments have been performed using the first 4 beams of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), in support of indirect drive Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and High Energy Density Physics (HEDP). In parallel, a robust set of optical and x-ray spectrometers, interferometer, calorimeters and imagers have been activated. The experiments have been undertaken with laser powers and energies of up to 8 TW and 17 kJ in flattop and shaped 1-9 ns pulses focused with various beam smoothing options.
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