Abstract
Broad bandwidth, infrared light sources have the potential to revolutionize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) by suppressing laser-plasma instabilities. There is, however, a tradeoff: The broad bandwidth precludes high efficiency conversion from the infrared to the ultraviolet, where laser-plasma interactions are weaker. Operation in the infrared could intensify the role of resonance absorption, an effect long suspected to be the shortcoming of early ICF experiments. Here, we present simulations exploring the effect of the bandwidth on resonance absorption. In the linear regime, the bandwidth has little effect on resonance absorption; in the nonlinear regime, the bandwidth suppresses enhanced absorption resulting from the electromagnetic decay instability. These findings evince that, regardless of the bandwidth, an ICF implosion will confront at least linear levels of resonance absorption.
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