Vacuum heating evaluation for plasmas of exponentially decreasing density profile

Ultra-short pulse lasers have opened a regime of laser–plasma interaction where plasmas have scale lengths shorter than the laser wavelength and allow the possibility of generating near-solid density plasmas. The interaction of high-intensity laser beams with sharply bounded high-density and small s...

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Published in:Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer 2008-07, Vol.109 (11), p.1960-1967
Main Authors: Pestehe, S.J., Mohammadnejad, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Density profiles
Lasers
Laser–plasma interactions
Plasmas
Vacuum heating
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Summary:Ultra-short pulse lasers have opened a regime of laser–plasma interaction where plasmas have scale lengths shorter than the laser wavelength and allow the possibility of generating near-solid density plasmas. The interaction of high-intensity laser beams with sharply bounded high-density and small scale length plasmas is considered. Absorption of the laser energy associated with the mechanism of dragging electrons out of the plasma into the vacuum and sending them back into the plasma with the electric field component along the density gradient, so called vacuum heating, is studied. An exponentially decreasing electron density profile is assumed. The vector potential of the electromagnetic field propagating through the plasma is calculated and the behaviour of the electric and magnetic components of the electromagnetic field is studied. The fraction of laser power absorbed in this process is calculated and plotted versus the laser beam incidence angle, illumination energy, and the plasma scale length.
ISSN:0022-4073
1879-1352
DOI:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2008.01.018