Filamentation of the plasma expanding from a laser-irradiated solid

, two-stream [2] , current filamentation [3] , and electro-thermal [4] instabilities. As yet, a cohesive picture of the relationship between each instability, and their spatial and temporal effects on a plasma, has yet to be completed, yet studies of such instabilities in the laboratory can inform the mechanisms behind a number of astrophysical phenomena [5]