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Ishizawa A, Ganeev RA, Kanai T, Kuroda H, Ozaki T. Measurements of blue shifts due to collisionless absorption in harmonic generation from subpicosecond laser-produced plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2002; 66:026414. [PMID: 12241304 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.66.026414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2001] [Revised: 03/25/2002] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Harmonic generation from solid surface plasmas is studied using a subpicosecond Nd:glass laser system. For a 45 degrees angle of incidence, the speculars up to the fifth harmonics are blue shifted when the laser intensity exceeds 2 x 10(16) W cm(-2). The second harmonic is blueshifted by approximately 16 A, and the fifth harmonic is blue shifted by approximately 51 A for p polarization at the intensity of 1 x 10(17) W cm(-2). We observed the blue shift of the fifth harmonics and found that the magnitude of blue shift is higher compared with that for the second harmonics. The blue shift is interpreted as a collisionless absorption due to the anomalous skin effect. It is also found that the divergence of harmonics preserves a smaller divergence when using a shorter pulse length for the driving laser.
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- A Ishizawa
- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.
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Lasers with ultrafast pulses have been developed to decrease the energy necessary to incise tissues and to decrease damage to surrounding tissues. The IntraLase femtosecond (10-15 seconds) laser has been approved by the FDA for lamellar corneal surgery. It uses an infrared (1053 nm) scanning pulse focused to 3 microm with an accuracy of 1 microm to cut a spiral pattern in the corneal stroma creating precise lamellar flaps for LASIK. Clinical studies show that the flaps are uniformly of good quality with no flap complications. The flexibility of this system allows for intrastromal corneal surgery and may make it useful for other refractive and corneal procedures.
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- Alan Sugar
- Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA.
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Korn G, Thoss A, Stiel H, Vogt U, Richardson M, Elsaesser T, Faubel M. Ultrashort 1-kHz laser plasma hard x-ray source. OPTICS LETTERS 2002; 27:866-8. [PMID: 18007954 DOI: 10.1364/ol.27.000866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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We achieved a continuous, stable, ultrashort pulse hard x-ray point source by focusing 1.8-W, 1-kHz, 50-fs laser pulses onto a novel, 30-microm -diameter, high-velocity, liquid-metal gallium jet. This target geometry avoids most of the debris problems of solid targets and provides nearly 4pi illumination. Photon fluxes of 5x10(8) photons/s are generated in a two-component spectrum consisting of a broad continuum from 4 to 14 keV and strong K(alpha) and K(beta) emission lines at 9.25 and 10.26 keV. This source will find wide use in time-resolved x-ray diffraction studies and other applications.
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Pettersson M, Zadoyan R, Eloranta J, Schwentner N, Apkarian VA. Strong-Field Excitation of Liquid and Solid Xe Using Intense Femtosecond Pulses. J Phys Chem A 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0146317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- M. Pettersson
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92612-2025
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92612-2025
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92612-2025
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92612-2025
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92612-2025
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Baltuska A, Fuji T, Kobayashi T. Controlling the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort light pulses with optical parametric amplifiers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2002; 88:133901. [PMID: 11955097 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.133901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The phase link between signal, idler, and pump waves in a parametric interaction allows generation of an idler pulse with a phase independent of that of the input pulse. We suggest the use of a white-light seeded optical parametric amplifier as a self-stabilized source of few-cycle pulses, in which the phase of the electric field is exactly reproduced in each laser shot.
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- Andrius Baltuska
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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Tatarakis M, Watts I, Beg FN, Clark EL, Dangor AE, Gopal A, Haines MG, Norreys PA, Wagner U, Wei MS, Zepf M, Krushelnick K. Measuring huge magnetic fields. Nature 2002; 415:280. [PMID: 11796997 DOI: 10.1038/415280a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Huge magnetic fields are predicted to exist in the high-density region of plasmas produced during intense laser-matter interaction, near the critical-density surface where most laser absorption occurs, but until now these fields have never been measured. By using pulses focused to extreme intensities to investigate laser-plasma interactions, we have been able to record the highest magnetic fields ever produced in a laboratory--over 340 megagauss--by polarimetry measurements of self-generated laser harmonics.
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- M Tatarakis
- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BZ, UK.
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Koch JA, Key MH, Freeman RR, Hatchett SP, Lee RW, Pennington D, Stephens RB, Tabak M. Experimental measurements of deep directional columnar heating by laser-generated relativistic electrons at near-solid density. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2002; 65:016410. [PMID: 11800793 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.65.016410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In our experiments, we irradiated solid CH targets with a 400 J, 5 ps, 3 x 10(19) W/cm(2) laser, and we used x-ray imaging and spectroscopic diagnostics to monitor the keV x-ray emission from thin Al or Au tracer layers buried within the targets. The experiments were designed to quantify the spatial distribution of the thermal electron temperature and density as a function of buried layer depth; these data provide insights into the behavior of relativistic electron currents which flow within the solid target and are directly and indirectly responsible for the heating. We measured approximately 200-350 eV temperatures and near-solid densities at depths ranging from 5 to 100 microm beneath the target surface. Time-resolved x-ray spectra from Al tracers indicate that the tracers emit thermal x rays and cool slowly compared to the time scale of the laser pulse. Most intriguingly, we consistently observe annular x-ray images in all buried tracer-layer experiments, and these data show that the temperature distribution is columnar, with enhanced heating along the edges of the column. The ring diameters are much greater than the laser focal spot diameter and do not vary significantly with the depth of the tracer layer for depths greater than 30 microm. The local temperatures are 200-350 eV for all tracer depths. We discuss recent simulations of the evolution of electron currents deep within solid targets irradiated by ultra-high-intensity lasers, and we discuss how modeling and analytical results suggest that the annular patterns we observe may be related to locally strong growth of the Weibel instability. We also suggest avenues for future research in order to further illuminate the complex physics of relativistic electron transport and energy deposition inside ultra-high-intensity laser-irradiated solid targets.
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- J A Koch
- University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-481, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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Najmudin Z, Tatarakis M, Pukhov A, Clark EL, Clarke RJ, Dangor AE, Faure J, Malka V, Neely D, Santala MI, Krushelnick K. Measurements of the inverse Faraday effect from relativistic laser interactions with an underdense plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2001; 87:215004. [PMID: 11736346 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.215004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Magnetic fields in excess of 7 MG have been measured with high spatial and temporal precision during interactions of a circularly polarized laser pulse with an underdense helium plasma at intensities up to 1x10(19) W cm(-2). The fields, while of the form expected from the inverse Faraday effect for a cold plasma, are much larger than expected, and have a duration approaching that of the high intensity laser pulse ( <3 psec). These observations can be explained by particle-in-cell simulations in 3D. The simulations show that the magnetic field is generated by fast electrons which spiral around the axis of the channel created by the laser field.
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- Z Najmudin
- Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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Kodama R, Norreys PA, Mima K, Dangor AE, Evans RG, Fujita H, Kitagawa Y, Krushelnick K, Miyakoshi T, Miyanaga N, Norimatsu T, Rose SJ, Shozaki T, Shigemori K, Sunahara A, Tampo M, Tanaka KA, Toyama Y, Yamanaka T, Zepf M. Fast heating of ultrahigh-density plasma as a step towards laser fusion ignition. Nature 2001; 412:798-802. [PMID: 11518960 DOI: 10.1038/35090525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Modern high-power lasers can generate extreme states of matter that are relevant to astrophysics, equation-of-state studies and fusion energy research. Laser-driven implosions of spherical polymer shells have, for example, achieved an increase in density of 1,000 times relative to the solid state. These densities are large enough to enable controlled fusion, but to achieve energy gain a small volume of compressed fuel (known as the 'spark') must be heated to temperatures of about 108 K (corresponding to thermal energies in excess of 10 keV). In the conventional approach to controlled fusion, the spark is both produced and heated by accurately timed shock waves, but this process requires both precise implosion symmetry and a very large drive energy. In principle, these requirements can be significantly relaxed by performing the compression and fast heating separately; however, this 'fast ignitor' approach also suffers drawbacks, such as propagation losses and deflection of the ultra-intense laser pulse by the plasma surrounding the compressed fuel. Here we employ a new compression geometry that eliminates these problems; we combine production of compressed matter in a laser-driven implosion with picosecond-fast heating by a laser pulse timed to coincide with the peak compression. Our approach therefore permits efficient compression and heating to be carried out simultaneously, providing a route to efficient fusion energy production.
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- R Kodama
- Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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Dong QL, Zhang J, Teng H. Absorption of femtosecond laser pulses in interaction with solid targets. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:026411. [PMID: 11497715 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.026411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We have studied the effects of the plasma density scale length on the absorption mechanism of the femtosecond (fs) laser pulses interacting with solid targets. Experiments and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations demonstrate that the vacuum heating is the main absorption in the plasma in the interaction of fs laser pulses with solid targets when no prepulses are applied. The energy spectrum of hot electrons ejected out of or injected into the plasma show a bitemperature distribution. While the first temperature of the two groups of hot electrons can be attributed to the "pull-and-push" exertion of the laser field, the second temperature refers to the electrons accelerated by the static part (in front of the target) and the oscillating part (in the plasma layer) of the laser-induced electric field, respectively. PIC simulations also show that with an appropriate density scale length, the femtosecond laser energy can be absorbed locally through different mechanisms.
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- Q L Dong
- Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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Haberland H, Bonitz M, Kremp D. Harmonics generation in electron-ion collisions in a short laser pulse. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:026405. [PMID: 11497709 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.026405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Anomalously high generation efficiency of coherent higher field harmonics in collisions between oppositely charged particles in the field of femtosecond lasers is predicted. This is based on rigorous numerical solutions of a quantum kinetic equation for dense laser plasmas that overcomes limitations of previous investigations.
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- H Haberland
- Institut für Physik, Universität Greifswald, Domstrasse 10a, Germany
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Bornath T, Schlanges M, Hilse P, Kremp D. Nonlinear collisional absorption in dense laser plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:026414. [PMID: 11497718 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.026414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Collisional absorption of dense, fully ionized plasmas in strong laser fields is investigated starting from a quantum kinetic equation with non-Markovian and field-dependent collision integrals in dynamically screened Born approximation. This allows to find rather general balance equations for the energy and the current. For high-frequency laser fields, quantum statistical expressions for the electrical current density and the cycle-averaged electron-ion collision frequency in terms of the Lindhard dielectric function are derived. The expressions are valid for arbitrary field strength assuming the nonrelativistic case. Numerical results are presented to discuss these quantities as a function of the applied laser field and for different plasma parameters. In particular, nonlinear phenomena such as higher harmonics generation and multiphoton emission and absorption in electron-ion collisions are considered. The significance to include quantum effects is demonstrated comparing our results for the collision frequency with previous results obtained from classical theories.
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- T Bornath
- Fachbereich Physik, Universität Rostock, Universitätsplatz 3, Germany
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Hartemann FV, Baldis HA, Kerman AK, Le Foll A, Luhmann NC, Rupp B. Three-dimensional theory of emittance in Compton scattering and x-ray protein crystallography. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:016501. [PMID: 11461420 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.016501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2000] [Revised: 02/26/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A complete, three-dimensional theory of Compton scattering is described, which fully takes into account the effects of the electron beam emittance and energy spread upon the scattered x-ray spectral brightness. The radiation scattered by an electron subjected to an arbitrary electromagnetic field distribution in vacuum is first derived in the linear regime, and in the absence of radiative corrections; it is found that each vacuum eigenmode gives rise to a single Doppler-shifted classical dipole excitation. This formalism is then applied to Compton scattering in a three-dimensional laser focus, and yields a complete description of the influence of the electron beam phase-space topology on the x-ray spectral brightness; analytical expressions including the effects of emittance and energy spread are also obtained in the one-dimensional limit. Within this framework, the x-ray brightness generated by a 25 MeV electron beam is modeled, fully taking into account the beam emittance and energy spread, as well as the three-dimensional nature of the laser focus; its application to x-ray protein crystallography is outlined. Finally, coherence, harmonics, and radiative corrections are also briefly discussed.
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- F V Hartemann
- Institute for Laser Science and Applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Cattani F, Kim A, Anderson D, Lisak M. Multifilament structures in relativistic self-focusing. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:016412. [PMID: 11461415 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.016412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A simple model is derived to prove the multifilament structure of relativistic self-focusing with ultraintense lasers. Exact analytical solutions describing the transverse structure of waveguide channels with electron cavitation, for which both the relativistic and ponderomotive nonlinearities are taken into account, are presented.
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- F Cattani
- Department of Electromagnetics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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Došlić N, Stare J, Mavri J. Hydrogen bonding in picolinic acid N-oxide. Part II: A proposal for dissipative laser driven proton transfer dynamics. Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0104(01)00350-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Farina D, Bulanov SV. Relativistic electromagnetic solitons in the electron-ion plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2001; 86:5289-5292. [PMID: 11384480 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.5289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present the results of the investigation about the ion motion influence on relativistic soliton structure, and show that in the case of moving multinode solitons the effect of the ion dynamics results in the limiting of its amplitude. The constraint on the maximum amplitude corresponds to either the ion motion breaking in the low-node-number case, or to the electron trajectory self-intersection in the case of high-node-number solitons. The soliton breaking leads to the generation of fast ions, and provides a novel mechanism for the ion acceleration in the plasma irradiated by the high-intensity laser pulses.
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- D Farina
- Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano, Italy
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Dove T, Schmidt T, López-Martens R, Roberts G. Optical control of electronic state populations via the dynamic Stark effect. Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0104(01)00215-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Farina D, Lontano M, Murusidze IG, Mikeladze SV. Hydrodynamic approach to the interaction of a relativistic ultrashort laser pulse with an underdense plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 63:056409. [PMID: 11415021 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.63.056409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The interaction of an ultrashort, high peak power laser pulse with an underdense plasma is investigated within a physical model based on the three-dimensional cold hydrodynamic approach, which allows one to study the dynamics of the laser pulse and of the generated wakefields self-consistently, in the fully relativistic, strongly nonlinear regime. Our model is developed with the aim of describing very short laser pulses (with l(0)<lambdap and l(0)<<l perpendicular, where l(0),l perpendicular, lambdap are the pulse length, its transverse scale, and the plasma wavelength, respectively) down to single cycle radiation wave packets, which have become available with the recent progress in laser technology. The space-time structure and the evolution of large quasistatic electric and magnetic fields are studied, together with the pulse dynamics, by the direct numerical integration of the relativistic fluid and field equations, within the extended paraxial approximation.
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- D Farina
- Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, CNR, 20125 Milan, Italy
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Chen LM, Zhang J, Teng H, Dong QL, Chen ZL, Liang TJ, Zhao LZ, Wei ZY. Experimental study of a subpicosecond pulse laser interacting with metallic and dielectric targets. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 63:036403. [PMID: 11308771 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.63.036403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We have studied laser absorption, hot electron emission, and the energy spectrum of hot electrons produced during the interaction of a 150 fs, 5 mJ, 800 nm p-polarized laser pulse at 8x10(15) W/cm(2) with metallic and dielectric target materials. Because dielectric targets are much less conductive, the charge separation potential in dielectric targets is higher than that of metallic targets. This leads to a smaller laser absorption, fewer emitted electrons, and a lower hot electron temperature in dielectric than in metallic targets.
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- L M Chen
- Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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Sheng ZM, Sentoku Y, Mima K, Nishihara K. Generation of one-cycle laser pulses by use of high-amplitude plasma waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 2000; 62:7258-7265. [PMID: 11102084 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.62.7258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The dynamics of a short laser pulse located in the density trough of a background plasma wave is investigated and a scheme is proposed to compress the pulse duration by use of a high-amplitude plasma wave. The threshold amplitude of the plasma wave, at which the compressing effect just balances the dispersive spreading of the laser pulse, is estimated for certain pulse profiles. Numerical simulations are conducted with particle-in-cell codes, where a pump pulse is used to generate a high-amplitude plasma wave and a signal pulse copropagates behind. It is shown that the signal pulse can be compressed by the plasma wave from ten laser cycles to about one cycle within a millimeter in tenuous plasma only a few percent of the critical density.
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- ZM Sheng
- Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Zweiback J, Cowan TE, Smith RA, Hartley JH, Howell R, Steinke CA, Hays G, Wharton KB, Crane JK, Ditmire T. Characterization of fusion burn time in exploding deuterium cluster plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2000; 85:3640-3643. [PMID: 11030970 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.85.3640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Exploiting the energetic interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with deuterium clusters, it is possible to create conditions in which nuclear fusion results from explosions of these clusters. We have conducted high-resolution neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy on these plasmas and show that they yield fast bursts of nearly monochromatic fusion neutrons with temporal duration as short as a few hundred picoseconds. Such a short, nearly pointlike source now opens up the unique possibility of using these bright neutron pulses, either as a pump or a probe, to conduct ultrafast studies with neutrons.
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- J Zweiback
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-477, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Snavely RA, Key MH, Hatchett SP, Cowan TE, Roth M, Phillips TW, Stoyer MA, Henry EA, Sangster TC, Singh MS, Wilks SC, MacKinnon A, Offenberger A, Pennington DM, Yasuike K, Langdon AB, Lasinski BF, Johnson J, Perry MD, Campbell EM. Intense high-energy proton beams from Petawatt-laser irradiation of solids. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2000; 85:2945-2948. [PMID: 11005974 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.85.2945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 371] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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An intense collimated beam of high-energy protons is emitted normal to the rear surface of thin solid targets irradiated at 1 PW power and peak intensity 3x10(20) W cm(-2). Up to 48 J ( 12%) of the laser energy is transferred to 2x10(13) protons of energy >10 MeV. The energy spectrum exhibits a sharp high-energy cutoff as high as 58 MeV on the axis of the beam which decreases in energy with increasing off axis angle. Proton induced nuclear processes have been observed and used to characterize the beam.
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- R A Snavely
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Albert O, Wang H, Liu D, Chang Z, Mourou G. Generation of relativistic intensity pulses at a kilohertz repetition rate. OPTICS LETTERS 2000; 25:1125-1127. [PMID: 18064292 DOI: 10.1364/ol.25.001125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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By using adaptive optics to correct the wave-front distortion of a 21-fs, 0.7-mJ, 1-kHz laser, we are able to focus the pulses to a 1-mum spot with an f/1 off-axis parabolic mirror. The peak intensity at the focal position is 1.5x10(18) W/cm(2) , which is to the authors' knowledge the first demonstration of generating relativistic intensity at a kilohertz repetition rate.
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Wittmann M, Nazarkin A, Korn G. fs-pulse synthesis using phase modulation by impulsively excited molecular vibrations. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2000; 84:5508-5511. [PMID: 10990981 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.5508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We report the temporal characteristics of laser radiation transmitted through impulsively excited SF6 and exhibiting sideband Raman lines. Even without special dispersion control we observed a sequence of compressed fs pulses following with the period of the excited A(1g) vibrational mode of SF6. The use of both negative and positive group velocity dispersion compensation for the temporal compression was found to be as appropriately efficient. The results prove our new concept of the ultrafast molecular phase modulator.
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- M Wittmann
- Max-Born-Institut fur Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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Sprangle P, Hafizi B, Penano JR. Laser pulse modulation instabilities in plasma channels. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 2000; 61:4381-4393. [PMID: 11088236 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.61.4381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In this paper the modulational instability associated with propagation of intense laser pulses in a partially stripped, preformed plasma channel is analyzed. In general, modulation instabilities are caused by the interplay between (anomalous) group velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation. The analysis is based on a systematic approach that includes finite-perturbation-length effects, nonlinearities, group velocity dispersion, and transverse effects. To properly include the radial variation of both the laser field and plasma channel, the source-dependent expansion method for analyzing the wave equation is employed. Matched equilibria for a laser beam propagating in a plasma channel are obtained and analyzed. Modulation of a uniform (matched) laser beam equilibrium in a plasma channel leads to a coupled pair of differential equations for the perturbed spot size and laser field amplitude. A general dispersion relation is derived and solved. Surface plots of the spatial growth rate as a function of laser beam power and the modulation wave number are presented.
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- P Sprangle
- Beam Physics Branch, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, USA
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Kong Q, Ho YK, Wang JX, Wang PX, Feng L, Yuan ZS. Conditions for electron capture by an ultraintense stationary laser beam. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 2000; 61:1981-1984. [PMID: 11046485 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.61.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present in this paper a quantitative study of an effect, in which a low-energy free electron is captured and violently accelerated to GeV final kinetic energy by a stationary extra-high-intensity laser beam (Q0 identical witheE/m(e)omegac greater, similar100). The conditions under which this phenomenon can occur, such as the momentum range, incident angle of the incoming electron, the waist width of the laser beam, etc., have been investigated in detail.
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- Q Kong
- Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Cowan TE, Hunt AW, Phillips TW, Wilks SC, Perry MD, Brown C, Fountain W, Hatchett S, Johnson J, Key MH, Parnell T, Pennington DM, Snavely RA, Takahashi Y. Photonuclear fission from high energy electrons from ultraintense laser-solid interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2000; 84:903-906. [PMID: 11017401 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A new regime of laser-matter interactions in which the quiver motion of plasma electrons is fully relativistic, with energies extending well above the threshold for nuclear processes, is studied using a petawatt laser system. In solid target experiments with focused intensities exceeding 10(20) W/cm(2), high energy electron generation, hard bremsstrahlung, and nuclear phenomena have been observed. We report here a quantitative comparison of the high energy electrons and the bremsstrahlung spectrum, as measured by photonuclear reaction yields, including the photoinduced fission of 238U.
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- TE Cowan
- University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Ledingham KW, Spencer I, McCanny T, Singhal RP, Santala MI, Clark E, Watts I, Beg FN, Zepf M, Krushelnick K, Tatarakis M, Dangor AE, Norreys PA, Allott R, Neely D, Clark RJ, Machacek AC, Wark JS, Cresswell AJ, Sanderson DC, Magill J. Photonuclear physics when a multiterawatt laser pulse interacts with solid targets. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2000; 84:899-902. [PMID: 11017400 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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When a laser pulse of intensity 10(19) W cm(-2) interacts with solid targets, electrons of energies of some tens of MeV are produced. In a tantalum target, the electrons generate an intense highly directional gamma-ray beam that can be used to carry out photonuclear reactions. The isotopes 11C, 38K, (62,64)Cu, 63Zn, 106Ag, 140Pr, and 180Ta have been produced by (gamma,n) reactions using the VULCAN laser beam. In addition, laser-induced nuclear fission in 238U has been demonstrated, a process which was theoretically predicted at such laser intensities more than ten years ago. The ratio of the 11C and the 62Cu beta(+) activities yields shot-by-shot temperatures of the suprathermal electrons at laser intensities of approximately 10(19) W cm(-2).
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- KW Ledingham
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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Clark EL, Krushelnick K, Davies JR, Zepf M, Tatarakis M, Beg FN, Machacek A, Norreys PA, Santala MI, Watts I, Dangor AE. Measurements of energetic proton transport through magnetized plasma from intense laser interactions with solids. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2000; 84:670-673. [PMID: 11017343 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Protons with energies up to 18 MeV have been measured from high density laser-plasma interactions at incident laser intensities of 5x10(19) W/cm(2). Up to 10(12) protons with energies greater than 2 MeV were observed to propagate through a 125 &mgr;m thick aluminum target and measurements of their angular deflection were made. It is likely that the protons originate from the front surface of the target and are bent by large magnetic fields which exist in the target interior. To agree with our measurements these fields would be in excess of 30 MG and would be generated by the beam of fast electrons which is also observed.
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- EL Clark
- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom and Radiation Physics Department, AWE plc, Aldermaston, Reading RG7 4PR, United Kingdom
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Moore CI, Krushelnick K, Ting A, Burris HR, Hubbard RF, Sprangle P. Transverse modulation of an electron beam generated in self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator experiments. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 2000; 61:788-792. [PMID: 11046324 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.61.788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/1998] [Revised: 08/17/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Low energy electron beams (E approximately 300 keV) generated in a self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator experiment were observed to filament and be deflected away from the laser axis forming radial jets in the electron beam profile. At higher energies (E>900 keV), the filamentation and jets were suppressed and smooth electron beams copropagating with the laser were observed. The observed electron beam filamentation likely results from laser beam filamentation in the plasma due to relativistic self-focusing effects. The radial jets of low energy electrons are likely caused by transverse ejection of the electrons due to the radial structure of the wakefield and space charge deflection of electrons as they exit the laser focus.
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- CI Moore
- Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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Hartemann FV. Stochastic electron gas theory of coherence in laser-driven synchrotron radiation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 2000; 61:972-975. [PMID: 11046354 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.61.972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/1999] [Revised: 09/15/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The transition from coherent to incoherent laser-driven synchrotron radiation is studied within the framework of a stochastic electron gas model. The fundamental difference between this approach and a relativistic fluid model resides in the fact that, for any number of incoherently phased point electrons, the 4-current contains Fourier components at arbitrarily short wavelengths, whereas the fluid model introduces an unphysical cutoff scale.
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- FV Hartemann
- Institute for Laser Science and Applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Walker B, Toth C, Fittinghoff D, Guo T, Kim DE, Rose-Petruck C, Squier J, Yamakawa K, Wilson K, Barty C. A 50 EW/cm;2 Ti:sapphire laser system for studying relativistic light-matter interactions. OPTICS EXPRESS 1999; 5:196-202. [PMID: 19401724 DOI: 10.1364/oe.5.000196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A 10-Hz repetition rate, 60-TW peak power, Ti:sapphire laser system was developed for use in experiments where relativistic effects dominate the physics. The temporal, spectral, energy and spatial characteristics of the laser pulses were measured in single shot format. The pulse duration ranged from 22 fs to 25 fs and the pulse energy averaged 1.3 J. Atomic photoionization measurements quantified the peak intensity of the laser pulse in situ. The measurements indicated an intensity of at least 510 19 W/cm 2 was produced.
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Zeng G. Energy gain of injected electrons subjected to an intense laser field and its magnetic field induced in plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 1999; 60:5950-8. [PMID: 11970498 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.60.5950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/1998] [Revised: 05/24/1999] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Cyclotron-resonance energy gain of injected electrons subjected to an intense circularly polarized laser field and the magnetic field induced in a low-density plasma is investigated theoretically. By considering the inverse Faraday effect (IFE), where a circularly polarized finite area laser beam induces an axial magnetic field in a plasma, it is found that very interesting energy gains can be obtained by Doppler-shifted cyclotron resonance in this field for the appropriate injection velocity. This same IFE field also acts to confine these electrons radially and, on exiting the plasma adiabatically, it is in this way that the transverse electron energy is converted to axial energy. Two limits to the energy gain are discussed: (i) cyclotron radius of the energetic electrons becoming comparable to the beam, and (ii) axial dephasing.
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- G Zeng
- National Key Laboratory on ISDN, XiDian University, Xi'an 710071, China
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Hehl K, Bischoff J, Mohaupt U, Palme M, Schnabel B, Wenke L, Bödefeld R, Theobald W, Welsch E, Sauerbrey R, Heyer H. High-efficiency dielectric reflection gratings: design, fabrication, and analysis. APPLIED OPTICS 1999; 38:6257-6271. [PMID: 18324150 DOI: 10.1364/ao.38.006257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We report on reflection gratings produced entirely of dielectric materials. This gives the opportunity to enhance the laser damage threshold over that occurring in conventional metal gratings used for chirped-pulse-amplification, high-power lasers. The design of the system combines a dielectric mirror and a well-defined corrugated top layer to obtain optimum results. The rules that have to be considered for the design optimization are described. We optimized the parameters of a dielectric grating with a binary structure and theoretically obtained 100% reflectivity for the -1 order in the Littrow mounting for a 45 degrees angle of incidence. Subsequently we fabricated gratings by structuring a low-refractive-index top layer of a multilayer stack with electron-beam lithography. The multilayer system was fabricated by conventional sputtering techniques onto a flat fused-silica substrate. The parameters of the device were measured and controlled by light scatterometer equipment. We measured 97% diffraction efficiency in the -1 order and damage thresholds of 4.4 and 0.18 J/cm(2) with 5-ns and 1-ps laser pulses, respectively, at a wavelength of 532 nm in working conditions.
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- K Hehl
- Ing-Büro Optimod, Ricarda-Huch-Weg 12, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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Kremp D, Bornath T, Bonitz M, Schlanges M. Quantum kinetic theory of plasmas in strong laser fields. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 1999; 60:4725-32. [PMID: 11970338 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.60.4725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/1999] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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A kinetic theory for quantum many-particle systems in time-dependent electromagnetic fields is developed based on a gauge-invariant formulation. The resulting kinetic equation generalizes previous results to quantum systems and includes many-body effects. It is, in particular, applicable to the interaction of strong laser fields with dense correlated plasmas.
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- D Kremp
- Fachbereich Physik, Universität Rostock, Universitätsplatz 3, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
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Vorsa V, Kono T, Willey KF, Winograd N. Femtosecond Photoionization of Ion Beam Desorbed Aliphatic and Aromatic Amino Acids: Fragmentation viaα-Cleavage Reactions. J Phys Chem B 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/jp991123c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Shvets G, Fisch NJ, Pukhov A, Meyer-Ter-Vehn J. Generation of periodic accelerating structures in plasma by colliding laser pulses. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 1999; 60:2218-23. [PMID: 11970016 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.60.2218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/1998] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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A mechanism for generating large (>1 GeV/m) accelerating wakes in a plasma is proposed. Two slightly detuned counterpropagating laser beams, an ultrashort timing pulse and a long pump, exchange photons and deposit the recoil momentum in plasma electrons. This produces a localized region of electron current, which acts as a virtual electron beam, inducing intense plasma wakes with phase velocity equal to the group velocity of the short pulse. Modulating the pumping beam generates periodic accelerating structures in the plasma ("plasma linac") which can be used for particle acceleration unlimited by the dephasing between the particles and the wake. An important difference between this type of plasma accelerator and the conventional wakefield accelerators is that this type can be achieved with laser intensities I<<10(18) W/cm(2).
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- G Shvets
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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Schlegel T, Bastiani S, Grémillet L, Geindre JP, Audebert P, Gauthier JC, Lefebvre E, Bonnaud G, Delettrez J. Comparison of measured and calculated X-ray and hot-electron production in short-pulse laser-solid interactions at moderate intensities. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 1999; 60:2209-17. [PMID: 11970015 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.60.2209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/1998] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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Ultrashort pulse laser-solid interaction experiments with 4x10(16) W/cm(2),120 fs, 45 degrees incidence angle, p-polarized pulses are theoretically analyzed with the help of 1(1/2)-dimensional (1(1/2) D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The laser impinges upon preformed plasmas with a precisely controlled density-gradient scale-length. PIC electron distribution functions are used as an input to 3D Monte Carlo simulations to interpret measured electron distributions and Kalpha radiation emission. Satisfactory agreement between the experimental and simulation results is obtained for the measured absorption coefficient, the energy distribution of the back-scattered hot electrons, the hot-electron temperature in the bulk of the target, and the Kalpha yield, when the preplasma scale-length is varied.
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- T Schlegel
- Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, UMR No. 7605, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, CEA-Université Paris VI, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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Troha AL, Van Meter JR, Landahl EC, Alvis RM, Unterberg ZA, Li K, Luhmann NC, Kerman AK, Hartemann FV. Vacuum electron acceleration by coherent dipole radiation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 1999; 60:926-34. [PMID: 11969838 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.60.926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/1998] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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The validity of the concept of laser-driven vacuum acceleration has been questioned, based on an extrapolation of the well-known Lawson-Woodward theorem, which stipulates that plane electromagnetic waves cannot accelerate charged particles in vacuum. To formally demonstrate that electrons can indeed be accelerated in vacuum by focusing or diffracting electromagnetic waves, the interaction between a point charge and coherent dipole radiation is studied in detail. The corresponding four-potential exactly satisfies both Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz gauge condition everywhere, and is analytically tractable. It is found that in the far-field region, where the field distribution closely approximates that of a plane wave, we recover the Lawson-Woodward result, while net acceleration is obtained in the near-field region. The scaling of the energy gain with wave-front curvature and wave amplitude is studied systematically.
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- A L Troha
- Institute for Laser Science and Applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Chu SI, Tong XM, Chu X, Telnov D. Recent New Developments of Steady-State and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theories for the Treatment of Structure and Dynamics of Many-Electron Atomic, Molecular, and Quantum Dot Systems. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.199900052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Sarkisov GS, Bychenkov VY, Novikov VN, Tikhonchuk VT, Maksimchuk A, Chen SY, Wagner R, Mourou G, Umstadter D. Self-focusing, channel formation, and high-energy ion generation in interaction of an intense short laser pulse with a He jet. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 1999; 59:7042-54. [PMID: 11969693 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.59.7042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/1998] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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Using interferometry, we investigate the dynamics of interaction of a relativistically intense 4-TW, 400-fs laser pulse with a He gas jet. We observe a stable plasma channel 1 mm long and less than 30 microm in diameter, with a radial gradient of electron density approximately 5 x 10(22) cm(-4) and with an on-axis electron density approximately ten times less than its maximum value of 8 x 10(19) cm(-3). A high radial velocity of the surrounding gas ionization of approximately 3.8 x 10(8) cm/s has been observed after the channel formation, and it is attributed to the fast ions expelled from the laser channel and propagating radially outward. We developed a kinetic model which describes the plasma channel formation and the subsequent ambient gas excitation and ionization. Comparing the model predictions with the interferometric data, we reconstructed the axial profile of laser channel and on-axis laser intensity. The estimated maximum energy of accelerated ions is about 500 keV, and the total energy of the fast ions is 5% of the laser pulse energy.
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- G S Sarkisov
- P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow 117924, Russia
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Enhancement of stimulated Raman scattering in laser-induced plasma formation in solvent mixture. Chem Phys Lett 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(99)00452-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Vorsa V, Willey KF, Winograd N. Photoionization of gas-phase versus ion-beam-desorbed dopamine with femtosecond laser pulses. Anal Chem 1999; 71:574-81. [PMID: 9989378 DOI: 10.1021/ac980774m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We have investigated the photoionization of gas-phase and ion-beam desorbed dopamine using femtosecond laser pulses at wavelengths of 800, 400, 267, and 200 nm. Photoionization of gas-phase dopamine is found to produce the molecular ion, and three fragment ions at all four wavelengths, with the branching ratios strongly wavelength dependent. Photoionization at 400 and 267 nm yields the highest molecular ion signal, while that at 800 and 200 nm produces very little molecular ion signal. An excited-state lifetime of approximately 10 ps following 267-nm excitation has been measured for dopamine using time-resolved pump-probe techniques. The short-lived excited state suggests that internal conversion, intersystem crossing, and/or dissociation is a concern when ionizing at this wavelength using longer laser pulses. Photoionization of ion-beam-desorbed dopamine exhibits a large degree of fragmentation at all four wavelengths, though 267-nm photoionization produces the highest yield of dopamine fragment ions. Power dependence studies show a high degree of internal excitation. A direct comparison of ion yields obtained for photoionization of ion-beam-desorbed dopamine at 267 nm to that for SIMS shows a 20-fold increase in signal.
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- V Vorsa
- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA
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Perry MD, Pennington D, Stuart BC, Tietbohl G, Britten JA, Brown C, Herman S, Golick B, Kartz M, Miller J, Powell HT, Vergino M, Yanovsky V. Petawatt laser pulses. OPTICS LETTERS 1999; 24:160-162. [PMID: 18071440 DOI: 10.1364/ol.24.000160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We have developed a hybrid Ti:sapphire-Nd:glass laser system that produces more than 1500 TW (1.5 PW) of peak power. The system produces 660 J of power in a compressed 440+/-20 fs pulse by use of 94-cm master diffraction gratings. Focusing to an irradiance of >7x10(20) W/cm (2) is achieved by use of a Cassegrainian focusing system employing a plasma mirror.
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Boreham BW, Bolton P, Newman D, Hora H, Aydin M, Azechi H, Cicchitelli L, Eliezer S, Goldsworthy M, Häuser T, Kasotakis G, Kitagawa Y, Martinez-Val JM, Mima K, Murakami M, Nishihara K, Piera M, Ray P, Scheid W, Sarris E, Stening R, Takabe H, Velarde G, Yamanaka M, Yamanaka T, Castillo R, Osman F. Beam matter interaction physics for fast ignitors. FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0920-3796(98)00277-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Rodriguez G, Taylor AJ. Measurement of cross-phase modulation in optical materials through the direct measurement of the optical phase change. OPTICS LETTERS 1998; 23:858-860. [PMID: 18087365 DOI: 10.1364/ol.23.000858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We measure the cross-phase modulation (XPM) nonlinear indices of optical materials resulting from the interaction of an ultrashort pump pulse at 800 nm with a weak ultrashort probe pulse at 400 nm through the direct measurement of the optical phase change, using frequency-resolved optical gating. The materials studied include fused silica (SiO(2)) , borosilicate glass (BK-7), beta-BBO , and KD(*)P . This method results in a XPM nonlinear index that is in agreement with calculations based on nonlinear indices from previous self-phase modulation measurements.
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