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Concepts and Illustrations of Optical Probing Diagnostics for Laser-Produced Plasmas

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Fast Electrical and Optical Measurements

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The laser-produced plasmas which occur in experimental studies of inertial confinement fusion (ICF), with laser drivers, present both challenges and opportunities for diagnostics. The challenges arise because of the small size, short duration and large inhomogeneity. Their small size is also an opportunity for a particularly simple type of interferometry; folded-wavefront interferometry. Actually, several rather simple diagnostics can be realized by utilizing properties of a probing laser beam, such as intensity, phase, polarization and angular scatter. Specific diagnostic concepts based on these properties are described and illustrated.

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    J. A. Stamper, E. A. McLean, S. P. Obenschain & B. H. Ripin

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Stamper, J.A., McLean, E.A., Obenschain, S.P., Ripin, B.H. (1986). Concepts and Illustrations of Optical Probing Diagnostics for Laser-Produced Plasmas. In: Thompson, J.E., Luessen, L.H. (eds) Fast Electrical and Optical Measurements. NATO ASI Series, vol 108/109. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0445-8_24

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