Yu Q Z, Zhang J, Li Y T, Lu X, Hawreliak J, Wark J, Chambers D M, Wang Z B, Yu C X, Jiang X H, Li W H, Liu S Y, Zheng Z J
Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, China.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Apr;71(4 Pt 2):046407. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046407. Epub 2005 Apr 25.
Thomson scattering (TS) measurements are performed at different locations in a laser-produced aluminum plasma. Variations of the separation, wavelength shift, and asymmetric distribution of the two ion-acoustic waves are investigated from their spectral-time-resolved TS images. Detailed information on the space-time evolution of the plasma parameters is obtained. Electron distribution and variation of the heat flux in the plasma are also obtained for a steep temperature gradient.