Va. Smalyuk et al., Saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor growth of broad-bandwidth laser-imposed nonuniformities in planar targets, PHYS REV L, 81(24), 1998, pp. 5342-5345
The Rayleigh-Taylor evolution of 3D broadband perturbations seeded by 351-n
m laser nonuniformities was measured in accelerated planar targets using x-
ray radiography at similar to 1.3 keV. Fourier analysis shows that the pert
ubations evolve to longer wavelengths with shorter wavelengths saturating.
The saturation amplitudes and rates of growth of 3D features are consistent
with the predictions of Haan [Phys. Rev. A 39, 5812 (1989)]. [S0031-9007(9
8)07891-0].