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Two-Dimensional Thomson Scattering in Laser-Produced Plasmas
by Haiping Zhang, Jessica J. Pilgram, Carmen G. Constantin, Lucas Rovige, Peter V. Heuer, Sofiya Ghazaryan, Marietta Kaloyan, Robert S. Dorst, Derek B. Schaeffer and Christoph Niemann
Instruments 2023, 7(3), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments7030025 - 6 Sep 2023
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We present two-dimensional (2D) optical Thomson scattering measurements of electron density and temperature in laser-produced plasmas. The novel instrument directly measures ne(x,y) and Te(x,y) in two dimensions over large spatial regions [...] Read more.
We present two-dimensional (2D) optical Thomson scattering measurements of electron density and temperature in laser-produced plasmas. The novel instrument directly measures ne(x,y) and Te(x,y) in two dimensions over large spatial regions (cm2) with sub-mm spatial resolution, by automatically translating the scattering volume while the plasma is produced repeatedly by irradiating a solid target with a high-repetition-rate laser beam (10 J, ∼1012 W/cm2, 1 Hz). In this paper, we describe the design and motorized auto-alignment of the instrument and the computerized algorithm that autonomously fits the spectral distribution function to the tens-of-thousands of measured scattering spectra, and captures the transition from the collective to the non-collective regime with distance from the target. As an example, we present the first 2D scattering measurements in laser-driven shock waves in ambient nitrogen gas at a pressure of 0.13 mbar. Full article
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