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- Title
Skin depth plasma front interaction mechanism with prepulse suppression to avoid relativistic self-focusing for high-gain laser fusion.
- Authors
F. OSMAN; YU CANG; H. HORA; LI-HUA CAO; HONG LIU; XIANTU HE; J. BADZIAK; A.B. PARYS; J. WOLOWSKI; E. WORYNA; K. JUNGWIRTH; B. KRÁLIKOVA; J. KRÁSA; L. LÁSKA; M. PFEIFER; K. ROHLENA; J. SKÁLA; J. ULLSCHMIED
- Abstract
Measurements of the ion emission from targets irradiated with neodymium glass and iodine lasers were analyzed and a very significant anomaly observed. The fastest ions with high charge number Z, which usually are of megaelectron volt energy following the relativistic self-focusing and nonlinear-force acceleration theory, were reduced to less than 50 times lower energies when 1.2 ps laser pulses of about 1 J were incident. We clarify this discrepancy by the model of skin depth plasma front interaction in contrast to the relativistic self-focusing with filament generation. This was indicated also from the unique fact that the ion number was independent of the laser intensity. The skin layer theory prescribes prepulse control and lower (near relativistic threshold) laser intensities for nonlinear-force-driven plasma blocks for high-gain ignition similar to light ion beam fusion.
- Subjects
IODINE lasers; ELECTROLYSIS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM glass lasers; SOLID-state lasers
- Publication
Laser & Particle Beams, 2004, Vol 22, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
0263-0346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s0263034604221164