Calculation of Direct Drive Targets for Megajoule Laser Facilities with Radiation in the Second and Third Harmonics of Nd Laser


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The numerical results for cryogenic direct drive targets of megajoule facilities with radiation in the second and third harmonics of a Nd laser are presented. The calculations were performed with the 1D radiation hydrodynamics code ERA with the laser light absorption model that takes into account stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), generation of fast electrons in the processes of two-plasmon decay (TPD), and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). The verification of the developed models was carried out on the basis of the comparison with experiments performed at the OMEGA and NIF facilities. The ignition margin (WQ) of nonuniform fusion targets with an allowance for energy losses due to radiation transfer and heat conduction from the hot spot was the objective of the target optimization. The calculations showed that SBS and target heating by fast electrons generated in TPD and SRS fatally reduce WQ of targets with a CH ablator for the megajoule laser with wavelength λ = 0.53 µm. The possibilities of decreasing these effects by replacing a CH ablator with a glass ablator and reducing the laser intensity upon increasing the target aspect ratio are considered. However, in both cases, WQ remains substantially below unity for the laser with wavelength λ = 0.53 µm. The ignition margin increases by a factor of ∼2 upon transition from the second to the third harmonic of a Nd laser. A glass ablator almost eliminates fast electrons in calculation with the laser wavelength λ = 0.35 µm. In this case, if SBS is reduced by a factor of 3–4 via shifting the laser emission lines in the neighboring channels by Δμ ≈ 10–20 Å, the ignition margin WQ ∼ 2 and a fusion energy yield of ∼50 MJ are obtained in the 1D calculation for a laser energy of ∼2 MJ and the third harmonic of a Nd laser.

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E. Bakurkina

Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center—Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics”

Email: v.a.lykov@vniitf.ru
俄罗斯联邦, Snezhinsk, 456770

V. Chernyakov

Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center—Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics”

Email: v.a.lykov@vniitf.ru
俄罗斯联邦, Snezhinsk, 456770

N. Karlykhanov

Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center—Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics”

Email: v.a.lykov@vniitf.ru
俄罗斯联邦, Snezhinsk, 456770

I. Khimich

Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center—Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics”

Email: v.a.lykov@vniitf.ru
俄罗斯联邦, Snezhinsk, 456770

V. Lykov

Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center—Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics”

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Email: v.a.lykov@vniitf.ru
俄罗斯联邦, Snezhinsk, 456770

G. Rykovanov

Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center—Zababakhin All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics”

Email: v.a.lykov@vniitf.ru
俄罗斯联邦, Snezhinsk, 456770

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