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The illumination uniformity of laser beams in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) facility is a key factor, which plays a crucial role in suppressing the laser plasma instabilities. However, the prevailing beam smoothing techniques cannot meet all the requirements for improving the irradiance uniformity of laser beams and mitigating the laser plasma instabilities, which are determined by the high-frequency spatial modulations and the fine-scale speckles of the focal spots. An ultrafast azimuthal beam smoothing scheme based on vortex beams is proposed in this paper. In this scheme, two of the four beams in a laser quad are transformed from super-Gaussian (SG) beams into vortex beams by inserting two spiral phase plates with opposite topological charges into the beam path, whereas the other two SG beams remain unchanged. By controlling the polarization and the center wavelength of each beam, the SG beam and the transformed vortex beam in the quad are coherently superposed on the target plane, so are the remaining two beams. Owing to the difference in central wavelength and the existence of the topological charges, two focal spots rotating in a period of a few picoseconds are generated in the target plane, which can redistribute the speckles quickly in temporal domain and thus improve the irradiance uniformity of the laser quad. By establishing the physical model of the azimuthal smoothing scheme, the smoothing characteristics including the rotation period, the illumination uniformity and the fractional-power-above-intensity of the focal spots are analyzed in detail. In order to improve the smoothing characteristics significantly, the novel smoothing scheme is further combined with another ultrafast smoothing scheme, i.e. radial smoothing scheme. The influence of the key parameters of the combined smoothing scheme on the illumination uniformity and on the smoothing velocity are discussed. Results indicate that the azimuthal smoothing scheme can achieve the ultrafast smooth of the laser quad in the azimuthal direction and the best illumination uniformity within a few picoseconds as well. Though the degree of improvement in the irradiance uniformity of the azimuthal smoothing scheme is lower than that of the radial smoothing, the combination of these two schemes can improve the uniformity effectively and rapidly. The novel smoothing scheme provides a potential smoothing approach for the high-power laser facilities.
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图 1 角向匀滑方案示意图
Figure 1. Schematic illustration of angular smoothing.
图 2 靶面光强分布 (a) CPP+SSD; (b) CPP+RS; (c) CPP+AS
Figure 2. Intensity distributions of target face: (a) CPP+SSD; (b) CPP+RS; (c) CPP+AS.
图 3 不同方案的焦斑特性 (a)光通量对比度积分时间的变化规律; (b) FOPAI
Figure 3. Focal-spot characteristics of different schemes: (a) Change regulation of integral time of contrast; (b) FOPAI.
图 4 靶面光强分布 (a)—(f) 瞬时光强; (g) 平均光强
Figure 4. Intensity distribution on target surface: (a)−(f) Instant intensity; (g) average intensity.
图 5 AS+RS联用的束匀滑方案 (a) 光通量对比度; (b) FOPAI; (c)焦斑光强分布; (d)散斑扫动速度径向分布
Figure 5. Uniformity improvement of focal spot when AS is applied with RS: (a) Contrast curves; (b) FOPAI curves; (c) focal-spot intensity distribution; (d) swiping velocity distribution of speckles in radial direction.
图 6 焦斑光通量对比度随 (a)中心波长差
$ \Delta \lambda $ , (b)拓扑荷数|m|的变化Figure 6. Contrast variations with different (a) central wavelength shift
$ \Delta \lambda $ and (b) topological charges |m|. -
[1] Miller G H, Moses E I, Wuest C R 2004 Nucl. Fusion 44 S228
Google Scholar
[2] Dixit S N, Thomas I M, Woods B W, Morgan A J, Henesian M A, Wegner P J, Powell H T 1993 Appl. Opt. 32 2543
Google Scholar
[3] Rushford M C, Dixit S N, Thomas I M, Martin A M, Perry M D 2000 Proc. SPIE 87 3654
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Google Scholar
[5] Boehly T R, Babushkin A, Bradley D K, Craxton R S, Delettrez J A, Epstein R, Kessler T J, Knayer J P, McCrory R L, McKenty P W, Meyerhofer D D, Regan S, Seka W, Skupsky S, Smalyuk V A, Town R P J, Yaakobi B 2001 Laser Part. Beams 18 11
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[17] Schneider M B, Maclaren S A, Widmann K, Meezan N B, Hammer J H, Yoxall B E, Bell P M, Benedetti L R, Bradley D K, Callahan D A, Dewald E L, Doppner T, Eder D C, Edwards M J, Guymer T M, Hinkel D E, Hohenberger M, Hsing W W, Kervin M L, Kilkenny J D, Landen O L, Lindl J D, May M J, Michel P, Milovich J L, MoodyJ D, Moore A S, Ralph J E, Regan S P, Thomas C A, Wan A S 2015 Phys. Plasmas 22 122705
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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[22] Guo C S, Xue D M, Han Y J, Ding J P 2006 Opt. Commun. 268 235
Google Scholar
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