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Persistent URL	http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/42500
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Record Id	42500
Title	Production of periodically modulated laser-driven blast waves in a clustering gas
Contributors	DR Symes (Texas U. Austin), J Osterhoff (Texas U. Austin), R Faustlin (Texas U. Austin), M Maurer (Texas U. Austin), AC Bernstein (Texas U. Austin), AS Moore (AWE), ET Gumbrell (AWE), AD Edens (Sandia National Laboratory), RA Smith (Imperial College London), T Ditmire (Texas U. Austin)
Abstract	To study hydrodynamic behavior on thin shell high Mach number blast waves, experiments have been performed in which spatially tailored shock waves have been launched in a gas of clusters using an intense 35fs laser pulse. The target medium was first modified by destroying clusters in specific locations using a spatially modulated laser focus. Under subsequent intense laser irradiation, the efficient absorption properties of the remaining clustered regions compared to those regions with no clusters led to a pattern of hot and cold plasma resulting in a cylindrical blast wave with a periodic modulation imprinted on the shock front. This technique may provide a method for studying thin shell instabilities in strongly radiative blast waves.
Organisation	CCLRC , CLF
Keywords	Physics , 52.35.Tc , 52.50.Jm , 52.72.+v
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Journal Article	HEDP 3 (2007): 353-357.	doi:10.1016/j.hedp.2007.05.001		2007