Title :
Plasma dynamics and lasing condition of fast capillary discharges
Author :
Sakamoto, Nobuhiro ; Niimi, Gohta ; Hayashi, Yasushi ; Masnavi, Majid ; Nakajima, Mitsuo ; Hotta, Eiki ; Horioka, Kazuhiko
Author_Institution :
Department of Energy Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259 Midori-ku Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan
Abstract :
The dependence of the lasing condition of fast capillary discharge plasmas on the initial gas pressure and rising rate of the load current; dI/dt has been experimentally investigated. The results indicate that there is an optimum condition at suitable values of initial gas pressure and dI/dt. Based on the experimental results and a simplified scaling model for the compression process, the correlation between the plasma dynamics and the lasing condition in capillary pinch plasmas is discussed.
Keywords :
Discharges; Lasers; Load modeling; Plasmas;
Conference_Titel :
High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS), 2002 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7354-0107-5
