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Absorption in high-Z targets illuminated with 527-nm laser light at high intensity using induced spatial incoherence

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We have measured 527-nm absorption for induced spatial incoherence (ISI) and non-ISI illumination of high-Z targets over the 0.5–3.5 × 1014-W/cm2 laser intensity range using energy balance with a custom designed 30-cm diam light integrating sphere. Induced spatial incoherence of the laser beam was produced by inserting echelons in the beam path and operating the laser at wide bandwidth (0.2%). To produce ISI and non-ISI data for comparison, we irradiated a large number of 180-μm diam gold disks with 0.5–1.5-ns pulses with echelons in the beam path with and without wide laser bandwidths. Our data show an increase in absorption of 5–11% for the ISI illuminated targets and also suggest a weaker dependence of absorption on laser intensity for ISI illumination than for non-ISI.

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