Shalom Eliezer, Shirly Vinikman Pinhasi. Heat wave fast ignition in inertial confinement energy[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2013, 1(1): 01000044
- High Power Laser Science and Engineering
- Vol. 1, Issue 1, 01000044 (2013)
Fig. 1. Laser acceleration of a micro-foil in the laboratory and the rest frame of references.
Fig. 2. Micro-foil velocity as a function of the laser pulse duration 
in units of 
, where 
is the initial density, 
is the foil thickness and 
is the laser intensity.
in units of , where is the initial density, is the foil thickness and is the laser intensity. 
Fig. 3. Laser energy per unit area as a function of micro-foil velocity (in units of c ).
Fig. 4. Acceleration efficiency (
) of the micro-foil acceleration as a function of micro-foil velocity (in units of c ).
) of the micro-foil acceleration as a function of micro-foil velocity (in units of Fig. 5. (a) Nanosecond laser pulses compressing a ring target. (b) A multi-petawatt picosecond laser pulse accelerating a micro-foil into the pre-compressed target. (c) The impact shock waves upon the collision of the micro-foil with the pre-compressed target.
Fig. 6. Heat wave temperature space profile at three times, 
.
. Fig. 7. The micro-foil velocity threshold for heat wave fast ignition of deuterium–tritium (DT) fuel as a function of the heat efficiency for three cases of 
: 
, 
and 
.
: , and . 
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