Miniature shock tube for laser driven shocks
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Michel Busquet1, Patrice Barroso, Thierry Melse
1LERMA, UMR 8112, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS and UPMC, 5 Place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France. michel.busquet@obspm.fr
The Review of Scientific Instruments
|March 3, 2010
Abstract:
We describe in this paper the design of a miniature shock tube (smaller than 1 cm(3)) that can be placed in a vacuum vessel and allows transverse optical probing and longitudinal backside extreme ultraviolet emission spectroscopy in the 100-500 A range. Typical application is the study of laser launched radiative shocks, in the framework of what is called "laboratory astrophysics."
