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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

Zhantao Lu1,2、*, Xinglong Xie1,2, Xiao Liang1, Meizhi Sun1, Ping Zhu1, Xuejie Zhang1, Linjun Li1,2, Hao Xue1,2, Guoli Zhang1,2, Rashid Ul Haq1,2, Dongjun Zhang1, and Jianqiang Zhu1,2
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  • 1National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19(A), Yuquan Road, Shijingshan, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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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

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    Received: Aug. 26, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 10, 2025

    Published Online: Apr. 30, 2025

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    DOI:10.1063/5.0235138

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