Developments and fabrication of laser targets used to prepare inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments on CEA Laser ``M\'{e}gajoule'' (LMJ) facility

ORAL

Abstract

A micro materials and technologies research program has started in France since 10 years to develop a very complex cryogenic target to reach the combustion of a deuterium tritium mixture, by indirect drive on the CEA Laser ``M\'{e}gajoule'' (LMJ) facility. This mixture is contained by an amorphous hydrogenated carbon (a-C:H or CHx) doped with germanium capsule placed in the center of a hohlraum. This research program involves CEA scientists, engineers and technicians united to realize specific targets for carrying out laser plasma experiments on the CEA LIL ``Ligne d'Int\'{e}gration Laser'' or OMEGA-UPGRADE facilities. To achieve the production of such specific targets different technologies are successively used (coating, precision machining, laser machining, characterizations, assembling, etc{\ldots}). This article presents an illustration of these microtechnology realizations through particular complex laser targets for hydrodynamic, or parametric instabilities studies and for symmetry experimental effects studies on fusion burn.

Authors

  • Sophie Bednarczyk

    • CEA
  • Fr\'ed\'eric Durut

    • CEA
  • Beno\^It Reneaume

    • CEA
  • Marc Th\'eobald

    • CEA
  • Alexis Casner

    • CEA
  • V\'eronique Tassin

    • CEA
  • Marie-Christine Monteil

    • CEA
  • Didier Galmich

    • CEA