title: Thomson scattering measurements of heat flux from ion-acoustic waves in laser-produced aluminum plasmas.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, China.
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authors.lastname: Yu
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authors.lastname: Lu
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authors.lastname: Hawreliak
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authors.lastname: Wark
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authors.lastname: Chambers
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authors.lastname: Wang
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authors.lastname: Yu
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authors.lastname: Zheng