On the possibility of high-temperature plasma production by laser pulses irradiating a volume-structured medium formed upon the explosion of a thin conductor

The properties and parameters of volume-structured metal media produced by exploding thin conductors in a high-power electric discharge are analysed. Such media are proposed for the production of nonequilibrium high-temperature laser plasma as a high-power X-ray and neutron radiation source. The physics of the interaction of a high-power laser pulse with a volume-structured metal medium and the properties of produced nonequilibrium plasma are considered.