Yin Chuanlei, Li Yutong, Lu Xin, et al. Intense laser-generated plasma jets with potential applications to young stellar object jet simulations[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2015, 27: 032035. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201527.032035
Citation:
Yin Chuanlei, Li Yutong, Lu Xin, et al. Intense laser-generated plasma jets with potential applications to young stellar object jet simulations[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2015, 27: 032035. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201527.032035
Yin Chuanlei, Li Yutong, Lu Xin, et al. Intense laser-generated plasma jets with potential applications to young stellar object jet simulations[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2015, 27: 032035. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201527.032035
Citation:
Yin Chuanlei, Li Yutong, Lu Xin, et al. Intense laser-generated plasma jets with potential applications to young stellar object jet simulations[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2015, 27: 032035. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB201527.032035
High speed plasma jets are generated by ablating half-cylinder-shell targets with two laser bunches on Shenguang Ⅱ Laser Facility. Using optical and X-ray diagnostics, the parameters of the plasma jets have been measured. Propagating in vacuum, the jets are collimated. One-dimensional hydrodynamic simulation is used to indirectly calculate the jet velocity. The collimation of the jets may be attributed to the expansion cooling of plasma bubbles ablated by main laser pulses. Radiative cooling of the high-Z plasmas might collimate the plasma jets as well. Having some geometrical similarities with young stellar object (YSO) jets, the jets have potential application to simulating YSO jets in laboratories.