Figure 1
Schematic view of the experimental setup. Four 240 J, 1 ns, 0.351 μm laser beams were incident on the front surface of a 2 × 2 × 0.006 mm3 Cu planar target. The forward supersonic plasma produced at the rear of the target interacts with an aluminum wire placed 1 mm away from the Cu target. The interaction was measured by shadowgraphy and Nomarski interferometry with a 527 nm, 30 ps short laser probe.
