High density gas jet nozzle design for laser target production

S. Semushin (1) , Victor Malka (1)

1 LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses

The optimization of a cylindrical nozzle design to generate a uniform density profile for laser plasmas studies has been investigated using numerical simulations. In addition gas jet flows have been characterized using a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. The experimental results are in very good agreement with the simulation.

Keywords: nozzles; plasma production by laser; supersonic flow; jets; flow simulation; computational fluid dynamics; light interferometry; Mach number

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

S. Semushin, Victor Malka. High density gas jet nozzle design for laser target production. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2001, 72 (7), pp.2961. ⟨10.1063/1.1380393⟩. ⟨hal-00520568⟩