Figure 3
Intensity of the Gaussian laser pulse used in this experiment (gray profile) as a function of time. The dashed black line is a Gaussian profile scaled to the laser intensity with a FWHM of 5 ns. The solid black line is the time evolution of the pressure loading at the plastic–Sn interface from the Fabbro model; the blue line and crosses are the time evolution of the pressure loading from Esther hydrocode simulations shown in Fig. 2. |