Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 10, Issue 2, 027403(2025)
Effect of laser wavelength on growth of ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability in inertial confinement fusion
Fig. 1. (a) Initial profiles of
Fig. 2. Profiles of
Fig. 3. Relative coupling efficiency between laser and kinetic energy of implosion fluid for different wavelengths.
Fig. 4. ARTI perturbations near the ablation surface after 4 ns of laser action for
Fig. 5. Average ARTI growth rates
Fig. 6. Variation of main hydrodynamic parameters with laser action time at five representative wavelengths (351, 100, 65, 40, and 30 nm): (a)
Fig. 7. Variations with laser action time of simulated perturbation amplitude for different laser frequencies (symbols) and of perturbation amplitude calculated from the theoretical ARTI growth rate (dashed line).
Fig. 8. (a) Plasma density contours and direction of laser (red arrow) in the perturbation region. (b) and (c) Distributions of laser energy deposition after 3 ns of laser action at
Fig. 9. Temperature contours of plasma after 4 ns of laser action at
Fig. 10. Average ARTI growth rate
Fig. 11. Variation of average ARTI growth rate
Fig. 12. Density contours and perturbation region length
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Zhantao Lu, Xinglong Xie, Xiao Liang, Meizhi Sun, Ping Zhu, Xuejie Zhang, Linjun Li, Hao Xue, Guoli Zhang, Rashid Ul Haq, Dongjun Zhang, Jianqiang Zhu. Effect of laser wavelength on growth of ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability in inertial confinement fusion[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2025, 10(2): 027403
Received: Aug. 26, 2024
Accepted: Feb. 10, 2025
Published Online: Apr. 30, 2025
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