Extracting core shape from x-ray images at the National Ignition Facility

Measuring the shape of implosions is critical to inertial confinement fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility. We have developed techniques that have proven successful for extracting shape information from images of x-ray self-emission recorded by a variety of diagnostic instruments for...

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Veröffentlicht in:Review of scientific instruments 2012-10, Vol.83 (10), p.10E519-10E519
Hauptverfasser: Glenn, S M, Benedetti, L R, Bradley, D K, Hammel, B A, Izumi, N, Khan, S F, Kyrala, G A, Ma, T, Milovich, J L, Pak, A E, Smalyuk, V A, Tommasini, R, Town, R P
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Zusammenfassung:Measuring the shape of implosions is critical to inertial confinement fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility. We have developed techniques that have proven successful for extracting shape information from images of x-ray self-emission recorded by a variety of diagnostic instruments for both DT-filled targets and low-yield surrogates. These key results help determine optimal laser and target parameters leading to ignition. We have compensated for instrumental response and have employed a variety of image processing methods to remove artifacts from the images while retaining salient features. The implosion shape has been characterized by decomposing intensity contours into Fourier and Legendre modes for different lines of sight. We also describe procedures we have developed for estimating uncertainties in these measurements.
ISSN:0034-6748
1089-7623
DOI:10.1063/1.4731743