Lasers feel the Z-pinch
May 10, 2004
The applications of wire-array “Z-pinches”
are experiencing a renaissance. In recent
years, researchers at Sandia in the US, Imperial
College in the UK, and the Troitsk
Institute in Russia, among others, have
managed to perfect the art of using ultrashort
current pulses to produce an intense
source of X-rays. Such a source can be used
to drive thermonuclear fusion, to simulate
the plasmas that are found near the surface
of neutron stars, or to produce jets similar
to those in astrophysical phenomena.
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