Survey of studies of laser-produced plasmas at the Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching

A status report of November 1970 on experimental and theoretical studies of laserproduced plasmas at the Institut für Plasmaphysik is given. Experimental investigations of plasma production by nanosecond laser pulses from targets of solid hydrogen and deuterium, of Raman scattering from these materials, and of plasma production by picosecond laser pulses are described. The theoretical part comprises numerical studies of the expansion of a two-temperature plasma (T_e≠T_i) and of a multicomponent plasma and also calculations of the fusion rate of an inertially confined plasma.