scholarly journals Radiation Pressure-Driven Plasma Surface Dynamics in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulse Interactions with Ultra-Thin Foils

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Gonzalez-Izquierdo ◽  
Remi Capdessus ◽  
Martin King ◽  
Ross Gray ◽  
Robbie Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Radiation Pressure ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Surface Dynamics ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Plasma Surface ◽  
Thin Foils ◽  
Pressure Driven

scholarly journals Time evolution of solid-density plasma during and after irradiation by a short, intense laser pulse

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shixia Luan ◽  
Wei Yu ◽  
Masakatsu Murakami ◽  
Hongbin Zhuo ◽  
Mingyang Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Electron Density ◽  
Radiation Pressure ◽  
Charge Separation ◽  
Laser Action ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Density Jump ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Solid Density ◽  
Density Plasma

AbstractA two-dimensional theoretical model for the evolution of solid-density plasma irradiated by short, intense laser pulse is introduced. The electrons near the target surface are pushed inward by the radiation pressure, leading to a receding electron density jump where the laser is reflected. The electrostatic field of the resulting charge separation eventually balances the radiation pressure at the laser peak. After that the charge separation field becomes dominant. It accelerates and compresses the ions that are left behind until they merge with the compressed electrons, resulting in a high-density plasma peak. The laser pulse reflected from the receding electron density jump loses energy in plasma and suffers Doppler frequency red-shift, which can provide valuable information on the laser absorption rate and the speed of the receding electrons. Electron oscillations, including the u × B oscillations across the density jump at twice the laser frequency during the laser action, as well as the low-frequency oscillations appearing after laser action, are identified.

scholarly journals Petapascal Pressure Driven by Fast Isochoric Heating with a Multipicosecond Intense Laser Pulse

2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuki Matsuo ◽  
Naoki Higashi ◽  
Natsumi Iwata ◽  
Shohei Sakata ◽  
Seungho Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Isochoric Heating ◽  
Pressure Driven

Reduction of the Coherence Time of an Intense Laser Pulse Propagating through a Plasma

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fuchs ◽  
C. Labaune ◽  
H. Bandulet ◽  
P. Michel ◽  
S. Depierreux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Coherence Time ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse

scholarly journals Focusing of intense laser pulse by a hollow cone

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yu ◽  
Lihua Cao ◽  
M.Y. Yu ◽  
A.L. Lei ◽  
Z.M. Sheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Plasma Boundary ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Hollow Cone ◽  
Conical Channel ◽  
Boundary Plasma

AbstractIt is shown that an intense laser pulse can be focused by a conical channel. This anomalous light focusing can be attributed to a hitherto ignored effect in nonlinear optics, namely that the boundary response depends on the light intensity: the inner cone surface is ionized and the laser pulse is in turn modified by the resulting boundary plasma. The interaction creates a new self-consistently evolving light-plasma boundary, which greatly reduces reflection and enhances forward propagation of the light pulse. The hollow cone can thus be used for attaining extremely high light intensities for applications in strong-field and high energy-density physics and other areas.

scholarly journals Post-transient relaxation in graphene after an intense laser pulse

2013 ◽  
Vol 222 (5) ◽  
pp. 1263-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zhang ◽  
T. Li ◽  
J. Wang ◽  
J. Schmalian
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Transient Relaxation

Characterization of ultra-intense laser in radiation damping regime using ponderomotive scattering

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amol Holkundkar ◽  
Felix Mackenroth
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Electron Bunch ◽  
Input Parameter ◽  
Radiation Reaction ◽  
Quantitative Agreement ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Scattered Electron ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Particle Simulations

Abstract We present a novel approach to analyzing phase-space distributions of electrons ponderomotively scattered off an ultra-intense laser pulse and comment on implications for thus conceivable in-situ laser-characterization schemes. To this end, we present fully relativistic test particle simulations of electrons scattered from an ultra-intense, counter-propagating laser pulse. The simulations unveil non-trivial scalings of the scattered electron distribution with the laser intensity, pulse duration, beam waist, and energy of the electron bunch. We quantify the found scalings by means of an analytical expression for the scattering angle of an electron bunch ponderomotively scattered from a counter-propagating, ultra-intense laser pulse, also accounting for radiation reaction (RR) through the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) model. For various laser and bunch parameters, the derived formula is in excellent quantitative agreement with the simulations. We also demonstrate how in the radiation-dominated regime a simple re-scaling of our model's input parameter yields quantitative agreement with numerical simulations based on the LL model.

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