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LLE Review, Volume 101 1 PULSE DESIGN for RELAXATION ADIABAT-SHAPED TARGETS in INERTIAL FUSION IMPLOSIONS It May Cause a Significant Adiabat Modification UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Volume 101 LABORATORY FOR LASER ENERGETICS October—December 2004 DOE/SF/19460-589 LLE Review Quarterly Report About the Cover: Both experiment and theory indicate that shaped adiabats improve the hydrodynamic stability and the performance of directly driven inertial con- finement fusion (ICF) capsules. Pickets preced- ing the main target drive pulse increase and shape the ablator adiabat. The front cover compares the x-ray images of two capsules at peak compres- sion for a laser pulse with and without a picket. The corresponding hydrodynamic simulations for these two cases are provided in the inset. It is evident that targets compressed by pulses pref- aced with a picket exhibit reduced ablation-inter- face Rayleigh–Taylor seed and growth rate. Additionally, these targets exhibit higher com- pression and larger fusion yields from fusion reactions compared to the case of a pulse without a picket. This report was prepared as an account of work conducted by the United States Government or any agency thereof or any the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and sponsored by New other sponsor. Results reported in the LLE Review should not York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the be taken as necessarily final results as they represent active University of Rochester, the U.S. Department of Energy, and research. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein other agencies. Neither the above named sponsors, nor any of do not necessarily state or reflect those of any of the above their employees, makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or sponsoring entities. assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, The work described in this volume includes current research product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, which is supported by not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, the University of Rochester, the U.S. Department of Energy mark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily consti- Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion under Cooperative Agree- tute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by ment No. DE-FC03-92SF19460, and other agencies. Printed in the United States of America For questions or comments, contact Walter T. Shmayda, Available from Editor, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 East River Road, National Technical Information Services U.S. Department of Commerce Rochester, NY 14623-1299, (585) 275-5769. 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 Price codes: Printed Copy A04 Microfiche A01 Worldwide-Web Home Page: http://www.lle.rochester.edu/ UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Volume 101 LABORATORY FOR LASER ENERGETICS October–December 2004 DOE/SF/19460-589 LLE Review Quarterly Report Contents In Brief ...................................................................................... iii Pulse Design for Relaxation Adiabat-Shaped Targets in Inertial Fusion Implosions ........................................................ 1 Improved Target Stability Using Picket Pulses to Increase and Shape the Ablator Adiabat ..................................................... 13 High-Spatial-Resolution Studies of UV-Laser-Damage Morphology in SiO2 Thin Films with Artificial Defects.............. 23 Minimizing Artifact Formation in Magnetorheological Finishing of CVD ZnS Flats ......................................................... 35 A Multichannel, High-Resolution, UV Spectrometer for Laser-Fusion Applications ...................................................... 43 Quantum Efficiency and Noise Equivalent Power of Nanostructured, NbN, Single-Photon Detectors in the Wavelength Range from Visible to Infrared ...................... 49 Measurement of Preheat due to Fast Electrons in Laser Implosions of Cryogenic Deuterium Targets ................. 54 Publications and Conference Presentations i ii In Brief This volume of the LLE Review, covering October–December 2004, highlights, in the first two articles, the significance of shaped adiabats to inertial confinement fusion. In the first article (p. 1), R. Betti, K. Anderson, J. P. Knauer, T. J. B. Collins, R. L. McCrory, P. W. McKenty, and S. Skupsky demonstrate that inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsules with shaped adiabats are expected to exhibit improved hydrodynamic stability without compromising the one-dimensional performances exhibited by flat- adiabat shells. Although the theoretical formulas for the adiabat profiles generated by the relaxation method of adiabat shaping have been previously derived in LLE Rev. 98 (pp. 106–121), the formulas presented in this article are simplified to power-law expressions. Simulations show good agreement with these power-law and pulse design formulas. In the second article (p. 13), J. P. Knauer, K. Anderson, R. Betti, T. J. B. Collins, V. N. Goncharov, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, P. B. Radha, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, and V. A. Smalyuk along with J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, and F. H. Séguin of the Plasma Fusion Center at MIT demonstrate experimentally that target stability improves when picket pulses are used to increase and shape the ablator adiabat. Hydrodynamic simulations show that a picket pulse preceding the main target drive pulse in a direct-drive ICF implosion can reduce both the ablation interface RT seed and the growth rate by increasing the adiabat while maintaining the low adiabat in the inner fuel layer for optimal target compression and a minimal drive energy for ignition. Experiments show that the Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) growth of nonuniformities is suppressed in both planar and spherical targets with picket-pulse laser illumination. Two types of picket pulses—a “decaying-shock-wave picket” and a “relaxation” picket— are used to shape the adiabat in spherical targets. Planar growth measurements using a wide, intense picket to raise the adiabat of a CH foil showed that the growth of short-wavelength perturbations was reduced, and even stabilized, by adjusting the intensity of the picket. Planar imprint experiments showed the expected reduction of imprinting when a picket pulse is used. The data show that the imprint level is reduced when a picket is added and, for short wavelengths, is as effective as 1-D, 1.5-Å SSD. A series of implosion experiments with a 130-ps-wide picket pulse showed a clear improvement in the performance of direct-drive implosions when the picket pulse was added to the drive pulse. Results from relaxation- picket implosions show larger yields from fusion reactions when the picket drive is used. These adiabat- shaping concepts make the likelihood of achieving ignition with direct-drive implosions on the National Ignition Facility significantly more probable. Additional research developments presented in this issue include the following: • S. Papernov and A. W. Schmid (p. 23) demonstrate that crater formation in SiO2 thin films containing artificial defects by UV-pulsed-laser irradiation depends on the lodging depth of the defects. At laser fluences close to the crater-formation threshold and for lodging depths of a few particle diameters, the dominating material-removal mechanism is melting and evaporation. For absorbing defects lodged deeper than ~10 particle diameters, however, a two-stage material-removal mechanism occurs. The process starts with the material melting within the narrow channel volume, and, upon temperature and pressure buildup, film fracture takes place. iii • I. A. Kozhinova, H. J. Romanofsky, A. Maltsev, and S. D. Jacobs along with W. I. Kordonski and S. R. Gorodkin of QED Technologies, Inc. (p. 35) discuss the polishing performance of magnetorheological (MR) fluids prepared with a variety of magnetic and non-magnetic ingredients to minimize artifact formation on the surface of CVD ZnS flats. Their results show that altering the fluid composition greatly improves smoothing performance of magnetorheological finishing (MRF). Nanoalumina abrasive used with soft carbonyl iron and altered MR fluid chemistry yield surfaces with roughness that do not exceed 20 nm p–v and 2-nm rms after removing 2 µm of material. Significantly, the formation of “orange peel” and the exposure of “pebble-like” structure inherent in ZnS from the CVD process is suppressed. • W. R. Donaldson, M. Millecchia, and R. Keck (p. 43) designed and tested a 63-channel, high- resolution, ultraviolet (UV) spectrometer that can be used to check the tuning state of the KDP triplers. The spectrometer accepts an input energy of 1 µJ per channel, has a dispersion at the detector plane of 8.6 × 10–2 picometers (pm)/µm, and has a spectral window of 2.4 nanometers (nm) at λ = 351 nm. The wavelength resolution varies from 2.5 pm at the center of the field of view to 6 pm at the edge. • A. Korneev, V. Matvienko, O. Minaeva, I. Milostnaya, I. Rubtsova, G. Chulkova, K. Smirnov, V. Voronov, G. Gol’tsman, W. Slysz, A. Pearlman, A. Verevkin, and R. Sobolewski (p. 49) discuss their studies on the quantum efficiency (QE) and the noise equivalent power (NEP) of the latest- generation, nanostructured NbN, superconducting, single-photon detectors (SSPD’s) operated at temperatures in the 2.0- to 4.2-K range in the wavelength range from 0.5 to 5.6 µm. The detectors are designed as 4-nm-thick, 100-nm-wide NbN meander-shaped stripes, patterned by electron-beam lithography. Their active area is 10
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