Shock-Wave Pressure Transfer to a Solid Target with Porous Absorber of High-Power Laser Pulse

• Published in: Journal of experimental and theoretical physics Vol. 134; no. 3; pp. 340 - 349
• Main Authors: Belov, I. A., Bel’kov, S. A., Bondarenko, S. V., Vergunova, G. A., Voronin, A. Yu, Garanin, S. G., Golovkin, S. Yu, Gus’kov, S. Yu, Demchenko, N. N., Derkach, V. N., Dmitriev, E. O., Zmitrenko, N. V., Ilyushechkina, A. V., Kravchenko, A. G., Kuz’min, I. V., Kuchugov, P. A., Myusova, A. E., Rogachev, V. G., Rukavishnikov, A. N., Solomatina, E. Yu, Starodubtsev, K. V., Starodubtsev, P. V., Chugrov, I. A., Sharov, O. O., Yakhin, R. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.03.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Absorbers; Aluminum; Analysis; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Density; Elementary Particles; Equations of state; Experiments; High power lasers; Inertial confinement fusion; Laser-plasma interactions; Lasers; Nonlinear; Numerical analysis; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Pellet fusion; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Porous materials; Porous media; Pressure jump; Pressure transfer; Quantum Field Theory; Radiation; Relativity Theory; Shock wave propagation; Soft Matter Physics; Solid State Physics; Statistical; Wave generation; Wave propagation; Wave velocity
• ISSN: 1063-7761; 1090-6509
• DOI: 10.1134/S106377612203013X

Results of experiments aimed at amplification of the pressure of laser-induced shock wave on the passage from low- to high-density target material via vacuum gap are presented. During the action of nanosecond laser pulse of terawatt power on plane composite targets comprising a layer of laser radiation absorber of low-density (0.01–0.025 g/cm 3 ) spaced by vacuum gap from a layer of aluminum, the shock-wave velocity in aluminum reached 25–29 km/s and a pressure jump at the aluminum layer boundary was 1.2–1.5 times as large as that observed in experiments on the cumulative transition of laser-induced shock wave into a solid. The obtained experimental data are compared to results of the numerical calculations performed using hydrodynamic programs in which the shock-wave generation and propagation was modeled with allowance for the interaction of laser pulses with partly homogenized plasma of the porous material. Based on the results of experiments, numerical calculations, and their theoretical analysis, the efficiency of using low-density porous media in the targets intended for their equation of state investigations and inertial confinement fusion ignition is considered.