Two-plasmon-decay instability(TPD)poses a critical target preheating risk in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.In this paper,TPD collectively driven by dual laser beams consisting of a normal-incidence laser be...Two-plasmon-decay instability(TPD)poses a critical target preheating risk in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.In this paper,TPD collectively driven by dual laser beams consisting of a normal-incidence laser beam(Beam-N)and a large-angle-incidence laser beam(Beam-L)is investigated via particle-in-cell simulations.It is found that significant TPD growth can develop in this regime at previously unexpected low laser intensities if the intensity of Beam-L exceeds the large-angle-incidence threshold.Both beams contribute to the growth of TPD in a“seed-amplification”manner in which the absolute instability driven by Beam-L provides the seeds that are convectively amplified by Beam-N,making TPD energetically important and causing significant pump depletion and hot-electron generation.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant Nos. 12375243 and 12388101the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant Nos. XDA25050400, XDA25010200, and XDA25010100+1 种基金the Science Challenge Projectthe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。
文摘Two-plasmon-decay instability(TPD)poses a critical target preheating risk in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.In this paper,TPD collectively driven by dual laser beams consisting of a normal-incidence laser beam(Beam-N)and a large-angle-incidence laser beam(Beam-L)is investigated via particle-in-cell simulations.It is found that significant TPD growth can develop in this regime at previously unexpected low laser intensities if the intensity of Beam-L exceeds the large-angle-incidence threshold.Both beams contribute to the growth of TPD in a“seed-amplification”manner in which the absolute instability driven by Beam-L provides the seeds that are convectively amplified by Beam-N,making TPD energetically important and causing significant pump depletion and hot-electron generation.
