A 7 T Pulsed Magnetic Field Generator for Magnetized Laser Plasma Experiments

A pulsed magnetic field generator was developed to study the effect of a magnetic field on the evolution of a laser-generated plasma.A 40 kV pulsed power system delivered a fast(~230 ns),55 kA current pulse into a single-turn coil surrounding the laser target,using a capacitor bank of 200 nF,a laser-triggered switch and a low-impedance strip transmission line.A one-dimensional uniform 7 T pulsed magnetic field was created using a Helmholtz coil pair with a 6 mm diameter.The pulsed magnetic field was controlled to take effect synchronously with a nanosecond heating laser beam,a femtosecond probing laser beam and an optical Intensified Charge Coupled Device(ICCD) detector.The preliminary experiments demonstrate bifurcation and focusing of plasma expansion in a transverse magnetic field.     

Demonstration of X-ray Thomson Scattering on Shenguang-Ⅱ Laser Facility

X-ray Thomson scattering technique for diagnosing dense plasma was demonstrated on Shenguang-Π laser facility.Laser plasma x-ray source of titanium He-α lines (～4.75keV),generated by laser beam (1.5kJ/527nm/2ns) heated titanium thin foil,was used as x-ray probe beam.The x-ray probe was then scattered by cold CH foam column of 1g/cm3 density.The scattered radiation at 90 was diffracted by polyethylene terephthalate (PET) crystal and recorded on x-ray charge-coupled device.Well-defined scattering spectra were obtained with good signal to noise ratio.     

Study of the Performance of a Streaked Optical Pyrometer System for Temperature Measurement of Shocked Materials

A streaked optical pyrometer （SOP） is developed and calibrated for the measurement of the temperature of shocked materials. In order to achieve a higher relative sensitivity, a onechannel scheme is adopted for the system. The system is calibrated with a shocked step-shaped aluminum sample in the SG-III prototype laser facility. The relation between the count number in the detection system and the sample temperature is thus obtained, which can be adopted to infer the temperature of any shocked materials in future experiments.     

A High-Efficiency X-Ray Crystal Spectrometer for X-Ray Thomson Scattering

Highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG) has high X-ray diffraction efficiency due to its unique mosaic crystal structure, and thus is very suitable for its application to X-ray Thomson scattering measurement of solid-density plasmas. In this article, by using the K-shell X-ray source from laser-produced Ti plasma, the properties of the HOPG spectrometer are characterized and compared with those of the flat Pentaerythritol (PET) spectrometer. The results show that the diffraction efficiency of the HOPG spectrometer under focusing condition is an order higher than that of the PET spectrometer, while the spectral resolution of the HOPG is about 320, high enough to be used in the measurement of X-ray Thomson scattering spectra.     

Ion dynamics in laser-produced collisionless perpendicular shock: one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation

Recently, perpendicular shocks have been generated in laboratory experiments by the interaction between a laser-produced supersonic plasma flow and a magnetized ambient plasma. Here, we explore the ion dynamics and the formation of such kinds of shock with a one-dimensional(1D)particle-in-cell simulation model using achievable parameters for laser experiments. A small part of the ambient ions is first reflected by the laser-driven piston. These piston-reflected ions interact with the upstream pl...