Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena: Volume 9

ISBN-13: 9780306437229 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 653 str.

George H. Miley; Heinrich Hora; H. Hora

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Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on title], held November 1989 at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. The 44 research papers cover new results, new applications, and future developments pertaining to laser fusion, laser development, laser-plasma instabilities, differen

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I. Laser Fusion.- U.S. Inertial Confinement Fusion Program Experiments: Results and Implications.- Status of Inertial Confinement Fusion Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.- High Density Compression of Hollow-Shell Target by GEKKO XII and Laser Fusion Research at ILE Osaka University.- Status of Experimental Investigations of ICF and X-Ray Lasers in SINPC.- Investigations into X-ray Damage to the First Wall of the Inertial Confinement Fusion Laboratory Microfusion Facility.- Leading Role of Laser Fusion and its Advances by Volume Ignition and by Pulsationfree Direct Drive.- Laser Induced Transitions in Muon Catalyzed Fusion.- II. Laser Development.- Light Ion Beam Drivers for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Development of High Power KrF Laser for ICF Laser Driver and Laser Interaction Experiments.- The Gamma-Ray Laser — Status and Issues in 1989.- Modelling of Intense Line Radiation From Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Observation of Gain on XUV Transitions in Ne-Like and Li-Like Ions.- Nuclear-Driven Solid-State Lasers for Inertial Confinement Fusion.- Lasing Without Inversion.- III. Laser-Plasma Instabilities.- Ion Acoustic Parametric Decay Instabilities in Laser-Plasma Interactions.- Spectral and Temporal Properties of l?0 2?0 and 3/2?0 Emission from Laser-Produced Plasmas.- A Survey of Raman Spectra from Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Experimental Study of Beam-Plasma Instabilities in Long Scalelength Laser Produced Plasmas.- Analysis of 2? and 3?/2 Spectra from Plasmas Produced by Irradiation of Thin Foil Targets.- Nonstationary Stimulated Brillouin Backscattering in Inhomogeneous Density Profiles.- Turbulence in Very-High Mach Number Laser-Accelerated Material.- IV. Interaction Properties.- Electron Motion in Plasma Irradjated by Strong Laser Light.- Early-Time “Shine-Through” in Laser Irradiated Targets.- Laser Induced Breakdown and High Voltage Induced Vacuum Breakdown on Metal Surfaces.- New Basic Theory From Laser-Plasma Double Layers: Generalization to Degenerate Electrons and Nuclei.- Caviton Generation with Two-Temperature Equation-of-State Effects in Laser Produced Plasmas.- Radiation Damage in Single Crystal CsI(T1) and Polycrystal CsI.- Active Beam-Control and Active Laser-Diagnostic of Intense Pulsed Ion Sources.- Saturable Magnetics for Laser and Plasma Interactions.- Nuclear Driven UV Fluorescence for Stimulation of the Atomic Iodine Laser.- A Highly Reflecting Microwave Plasma Mirror.- V. Laser Acceleration and Microwaves.- Particle Acceleration with the Axial Electric Field of a TEM10 Mode Laser Beam.- Acceleration of Electrons to TeV Energy by Lasers in Vacuum.- A Review of Back Lighted Thyratron Physics and Applications.- Two-Dimensional Calculation of Sequential Electron Layer Formation by Crossed Microwave Beams in Air at Low Pressure.- Shock Wave Decay and Spallation in Laser-Matter Interaction.- VI. ICF Calculations and Beam Fusion.- High-Gain Direct-Drive Target Design for ICF.- Adiabatic Compression of Fuel in ICF Target.- X-Ray Conversion in High Gain Radiation Drive ICF.- Implosion Characteristics of Radiation-Driven High Gain Laser Fusion.- Fission-Induced Inertial Confinement Hot Fusion and Cold Fusion With Electrolysis.- Ion Beam-Plasma Interaction for Particle Driven Fusion.- Tight Focusing of Proton Beam and its Interaction with Targets.- Theoretical Analysis of Charge Neutralization of the Intense Light Ion Beam.- An Implicit Fluid-Particle Model for Ion Beam-Plasma Interactions.- Attendees.- Author Index.