超强激光作用下相对论电子振荡所导致的谐波辐射

研究发现，在超强激光作用下电子运动的相对论效应可导致高次谐波辐射，采用单电子模型计算分析了不同偏振微光作用下的高次谐波发射，表明圆偏振激光较线偏振激光更有利于高次谐波产生。     

短脉冲强激光与固体靶作用在非相对论激光参数区的高次谐波

利用"表面电流"模型, 探讨了激光参数在非相对论区条件下激光与固体靶作用产生的高次谐波的若干性质, 也讨论了在非相对论区条件下劳仑兹力项的修正对高次谐波效率的影响.     

超强激光场中氢原子辐射高次谐波蒙特卡罗模拟

运用蒙特卡罗方法，模拟和计算出在超强激光场中，氢原子在相对论领域的电离几率和辐射出的高次谐波，并且讨论了氢原子的电离几率和辐射出的高次谐波与激光场的电场和磁场的关系。     

等离子体密度标长对高次谐波转换效率的影响

通过等离子体粒子模拟研究了在强激光与等离子体相互作用产生高次谐波的过程中,等离子体密度标长对转换效率的影响,计算了在不同密度标长下p偏振非相对论强度激光与高密度等离子体相互作用产生高次谐波的转换效率,发现等离子体密度标长对转换效率有重要的影响,这种影响与谐波级次,等离子体密度,激光脉冲宽度有关。     

相对论圆偏振激光与固体靶作用产生高次谐波

超短超强激光与固体靶表面等离子体相互作用可以通过高次谐波的方式产生从极紫外到软X射线波段的相干辐射,获得飞秒甚至阿秒量级的超短脉冲,可用于观测原子或分子中的电子运动等超快动力学过程.本文实验研究了相对论圆偏振飞秒激光与固体靶相互作用的高次谐波产生过程,实验结果表明,在较大入射角下,圆偏振激光也可以有效地产生高次谐波辐射.通过预脉冲控制靶表面的预等离子体密度标长,发现高次谐波的产生效率随密度标长的增加而单调下降.进一步通过二维粒子模拟程序,分析了激光的偏振以及预等离子体密度标长对高次谐波产生的影响,很好地解释了实验观测结果.     

超短脉冲强激光与固体靶作用产生的高次谐波红移

用一维粒子模拟程序研究了超短脉冲强激光与超临界密度等离子体平板作用产生的高次谐波。分析了振荡镜面模型所不能解释的伴随高次谐波出现的频率红移现象。通常激光与固体靶作用中的高次谐波是由于激光从振荡靶面的反射产生的.除此之外，相对论光强的激光与固体靶作用还应考虑光压对靶的烧蚀推进作用，这时激光相当于从一个移动的振荡靶面反射，所以产生了带有红移的高次谐波. 关键词： 红移 超短脉冲强激光 高次谐波 粒子模拟     

双色激光场对氢原子高次谐波的影响

为了深入研究高次谐波产生的多光子过程,使用劈裂算符结合拟谱的方法对氢原子在双色强激光场中的高次谐波辐射作了数值模拟计算,结果显示,当附加一适当双色激光场时,高次谐波谱的平台区大幅提高和展宽.根据计算结果提出的混合跃迁道理论,成功解释了高次谐波谱所呈现的细节特征.     

激光场中H原子高次谐波

建立了激光与原子相互作用的伪分立态模型 ,并用此模型计算了激光场中H原子的高次谐波 ,得到了与实验和其它理论计算相符的结果     

通过梯形激光场和半周期场的合成扩展高次谐波截止频率

本文提出了一个在少周期梯形激光场上叠加半周期场来扩展高次谐波谱截止频率的方案。通过采用求解含时薛定谔方程,理论模拟了一维模型氢分子离子体系在不同激光场条件下的高次谐波谱,并结合时频分布图,分析了半周期场对高次谐波产生的影响。计算结果表明,使用梯形激光和半周期场的组合方法,可以有效实现扩展谐波截止频率的目的。     

通过梯形激光场和半周期场的合成扩展高次谐波截止频率

本文提出了一个在少周期梯形激光场上叠加半周期场来扩展高次谐波谱截止频率的方案.通过采用求解含时薛定谔方程,理论模拟了一维模型氢分子离子体系在不同激光场条件下的高次谐波谱,并结合时频分布图,分析了半周期场对高次谐波产生的影响.计算结果表明,使用梯形激光和半周期场的组合方法,可以有效实现扩展谐波截止频率的目的 .     

Experiment of X-ray Generations Using Laser-Compton Scattering at LINAC of SINAP

Laser Compton scattering(LCS) can generate X-rays or y-rays with high brightness and easy controlled polarization by applying high-peak-power laser pulses to relativistic electron bunches.One of the most promising approaches to short pulsed X-ray sources is the laser synchrotron source.It is based on LCS between picoseconds relativistic electron bunches and picoseconds laser pulses.A project of Shanghai laser electron gamma source with LCS method has been proposed on Shanghai synchrotron radiation facility.Before that,a prototype has been developed in the beamline of the linear accelerator at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences.The LCS experiment was carried out by using the 107 MeV,5 Hz,1 ns,0.1 nC electron bunches from the linear accelerator and the 18 ns,10 MW peak power,Nd:YAG laser pulses.In this communication,we describe the details and report the first results of this experiment.     

Investigation of self-focusing a Gaussian laser pulse in a weakly relativistic and ponderomotive regime inside a collisionless warm quantum plasma

This article investigates nonlinear self-focusing of an intense right hand circularly polarized Gaussian profile laser pulse in a weakly relativistic and ponderomotive regime inside a collisionless and unmagnetized warm quantum plasma. The nonlinear propagation equation for laser pulse in plasma has been derived. Then, the evolution differential equation for laser spot-size was obtained with considering the parabolic equation approach under the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin and paraxial ray approximations. This differential equation was solved numerically by fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. It is shown that our solution confirms the results of the self-focusing of the laser pulse in a weakly relativistic ponderomotive regime in cold quantum plasma in extreme conditions. Numerical results indicate that self-focusing of the laser pulse in the presence of relativistic and ponderomotive nonlinearity inside warm quantum plasma is improved in comparison with relativistic and ponderomotive cold quantum plasma.     

Fundamental processes in relativistic laser plasmas

A review is given of processes fundamental for current relativistic regimes of laser matter interaction such as the generation and evolution of relativistic coherent nonlinear electromagnetic structures; generation of extremely high intensity electromagnetic waves and extremely high energy charged particle beams; novel regimes of electromagnetic wave interaction with matter and of the prospects for using laser accelerators for the high energy physics and for the laboratory relativistic astrophysics with relativistic laser plasmas.     

激光同步辐射源原理性实验的理论计算

利用强激光和相对论性电子束在任意相互作用方向发生的非线性Ｔｈｏｍｓｏｎ散射理论,计算了平面偏振激光在相互作用角为１８０°、１７８．５°和９０°三种条件下发生Ｔｈｏｍｓｏｎ散射所产生的Ｘ射线波长、相互作用时间等结果,并作出了１７８．５°散射时Ｘ射线强度的空间和频域分布图。利用ＹＡＧ倍频激光器和２５ＭｅＶ电子束对正向散射部分进行了实验验证。     

Attosecond X-ray pulse obtained from linear Thomson scattering

Linear Thomson scattering by a relativistic electron of a short pulse laser has been investigated by computer simulation. Under a laser field with a pulse of 33.3-fs full-width at half-maximum, and the initial energy of an electron of γ₀=10, the motion of the electron is relativistic and generates an ultrashort radiation of 76-as with a photon wave length of 2.5-nm in the backward scattering. The radiation under a high relativistic energy electron has better characteristic than under a low relativistic energy electron in terms of the pulse width and the angular distribution.     

Relativistic Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in the Field of Subterawatt Laser Pulses

Experiments on the generation of high optical harmonics demonstrating that relativistic regimes of interaction of radiation with matter can be implemented in the field of mid-infrared laser pulses with a peak power of 0.3 TW have been reported. The observation of relativistic phenomena at such extraordinary low peak powers of the laser field becomes possible because of the formation of a high-quality space-time mode of the laser field with an exactly specified polarization state. Such a field structure ensures a high intensity of radiation in the focus of the beam and the effective acceleration of electrons by a low-frequency electromagnetic field of a high-contrast laser pulse with an exactly specified polarization at the extremely sharp vacuum-solid interface.

     

相对论性电子在强激光场和Debye屏蔽库仑场下的散射

 在量子理论的框架内,利用含强激光场的二级相对论修正的运动方程,采用直接数值解法,着重研究了强激光场和Debye屏蔽库仑场下荷电粒子的碰撞截面及其与激光脉冲波形、频率、强度和屏蔽参数等的关系。     

Relativistic laser plasmas for novel radiation sources

Relativistic laser-plasma interaction results in new sources of short-pulsed x-ray radiation. Here we consider two options. The first one is betatron radiation of electrons accelerated in underdense plasmas and oscillating in transverse fields of the laser wake. This radiation is incoherent and broadband, the pulse duration is comparable with that of the driving laser. The second option is the high harmonic generation (HHG) from overdense plasma surfaces. This radiation is coherent. The relativistic high harmonics are phase locked and emerge in the form of (sub-)attosecond pulses. One- and three-dimensional regimes of relativistic HHG from overdense plasmas are considered.     

Laser‐Triggered Proton Acceleration From Micro‐Structured thin Targets

By using relativistic massively parallel PIC code MANDOR, which features arbitrary target design including 3D micro‐structuring, a study of ion acceleration in short laser pulse interaction with different thin targets has been performed. Based on 3D simulation results it has been shown that micro‐structures on the front surface of thin plane targets increase a number and energy of hot electrons in comparison with that for the case of pure plain foils of optimal thickness. As a result, the energy of accelerated ions also increases up to 50%. However, the efficiency of ion acceleration from structured target reduces with laser pulse intensity increase, so that for laser pulses of ultra‐relativistic intensity a positive role of surface micro‐structuring diminishes. We have also studied to which extent a sub‐ps imperfection of the laser pulse shape, which smoothes the surface micro‐structures suppresses high‐energy ion generation. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Coupling surface plasmon waves across gaps in a dielectric/metal interface by transformation optics

Propagation of a Gaussian laser beam in a plasma is analyzed by including the nonlinearity associated with the relativistic mass and the ponderomotive force. We set up the nonlinear differential equation for beam width parameter using parabolic equation approach and solve it numerically. Our results show that the ponderomotive self-focusing contributes in the relativistic self-focusing of the laser beam. An impact of plasma electron temperature, relative density parameter, and intensity parameter on the propagation of the laser beam has been explored.