https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816705003
Laser Irradiated Foam Targets: Absorption and Radiative Properties
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Pisa University, Physics Department "E.Fermi" and INFN
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ENEA Fusion and Nuclear Safety Department, C.R. Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati, Italy
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Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Accademy of Sciences, Moscow
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National Research Nuclear University, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute MEPhl
* e-mail: martina.salvadori90@gmail.com
Published online: 9 January 2018
An experimental campaign to characterize the laser radiation absorption of foam targets and the subsequent emission of radiation from the produced plasma was carried out in the ABC facility of the ENEA Research Center in Frascati (Rome). Different targets have been used: plastic in solid or foam state and aluminum targets. The activated different diagnostics allowed to evaluate the plasma temperature, the density distribution, the fast particle spectrum and the yield of the X-Ray radiation emitted by the plasma for the different targets. These results confirm the foam homogenization action on laser-plasma interaction, mainly attributable to the volume absorption of the laser radiation propagating in such structured materials. These results were compared with simulation absorption models of the laser propagating into a foam target.
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