Dynamics of laser-irradiated shell targets
Basov N.G., Volosevich P.P., Gamalii E.G., Gus'kov S.Yu., Zakharenkov Yu.A., Krokhin O.N., Rozanov V.B., Sklizkov G.V., Shikanov A.S.
Experimental results are presented of the measurements, on the "Kal'mar" installation, of the time of compression of shell targets by a laser pulse. The agreement between the experimental data and the theoretical dependence of the compression time on the target and pulse parameters indicates that at laser radiation fluxes < 1014 W/cm2 the "corona" and the shell-compression dynamics can be described within the framework of a hydrodynamic model with near-classical thermal conductivity.