학술논문

Accounting for speckle scale beam-bending in classical ray tracing schemes for propagating realistic pulses in indirect drive ignition conditions
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
Physics - Plasma Physics
Physics - Computational Physics
Physics - Fluid Dynamics
Physics - Optics
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Abstract
We propose a semi-analytical modeling of smoothed laser beams deviation induced by plasma flows. Based on a Gaussian description of speckles, the model includes spatial, temporal and polarization smoothing techniques,through fits issued from hydrodynamic simulations with a paraxial description of electromagnetic waves. This beam bending model is then included in a ray tracing algorithm, and carefully validated. When applied as a post-process to the propagation of the inner cone in a full-scale simulation of a NIF experiment,the beam bending along the path of the laser affects the refraction conditions inside the hohlraum and the energy deposition, and could explain the anomalous refraction measurements, the so-called glint observed in some NIF experiments.