Some aspects of the plasma uptake and spectrum excitation produced by laser radiation

It is shown that the ejection of material is explosive, the material emerging as jets moving at 20 km/sec. This supersonic flow produces a shock wave in the plasma. The main source of emission by the evaporated material lies in the jets and in the zones of the shock wave, these determining the character of the spectrum. Spectra recorded with a laser show a strong continuous background, together with line broadening and reversal, as well as absorption lines. The character of the spectrum is independent of the energy density of the laser radiation, but it is very much affected by the air pressure.     

Source of an atmospheric-pressure plasma jet formed in air or nitrogen under barrier discharge excitation

We analyzed the atmospheric pressure plasma jet excited in air and nitrogen by a barrier discharge. The source forming stable plasma jets of length up to 4 cm in air and nitrogen is constructed, and its energy and spectral characteristics are measured.     

Simulation of Processes on a Target Induced by a Jet System and Laser Radiation

The mathematical model and the results of computer simulation of the processes of compression, heating, and energy release in a target under the hybrid influence of a system of pulsed plasma jets and intense laser radiation in magnetic inertial thermonuclear fusion are presented. The hybrid effects of intense energy flows on a single-layer cylindrical target are compared in the experimental and simulation conditions. The main radiation magnetic and gas dynamic parameters of the compressed and heated target plasma are evaluated as well.     

Jet noise control using the dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators

We study experimentally how plasma actuators operating on the basis of surface barrier high-frequency discharge affect jet noise characteristics. The results of investigations of air jets (100?C200 m/s) have demonstrated that the studied plasma actuators have control authority over the noise characteristics of these jets. An actuator??s effect on the jet in the applied configuration is related to acoustic discharge excitation and to a large extent is similar to the well-known Vlasov-Ginevsky effect. It has been shown that jet excitation in the case of St ?? 0.5 using the barrier-discharge plasma actuator leads to broadband amplification of jet sound radiation. The jet excitation in the case of St > 2 leads to broadband noise reduction if the action is sufficiently intensive.     

纳秒激光诱导空气等离子体的红外辐射特性研究

纳秒激光诱导空气等离子体存在从紫外、可见、近红外乃至射频微波的宽谱段辐射,但目前的研究大多关注紫外到可见波段的光谱辐射。激光等离子体作为一种新型的红外辐射源具有很多优势,相比于红外干扰弹以及红外干扰手段而言,空气等离子体红外辐射源可以灵活布置,成本低廉,因此研究空气等离子体的红外辐射特性就很有必要。针对目前脉冲激光诱导空气等离子体的红外干扰研究需要,对激光波长为532 nm的纳秒脉冲激光诱导空气等离子体的红外辐射特性进行实验研究,探讨激光能量对空气等离子体红外辐射强度的影响规律,以及空气等离子体红外辐射的角度分布特性,分析了等离子体红外辐射的可能产生机制。实验结果表明,激光诱导空气等离子体在950～1 700 nm范围内的红外光谱为线状谱和连续谱的叠加。其中线状谱主要是氮和氧的中性原子谱线,并且氮原子红外辐射占主导。随着激光能量的增加,由于空气击穿产生的氧和氮原子数量增加,导致空气等离子体红外辐射的谱线强度逐渐增大。随着红外探测角度的变化,在探测角度为75°时,OⅠ 1 128.63 nm和NⅠ1 246.96和1 362.42 nm谱线强度达到最大,在探测角度为120°时,NⅠ 1 011.46和1 053.96 nm谱线强度达到最大,这是因为空气等离子体红外辐射强度随探测角度变化呈现空间非对称性,表明空气等离子体内不同粒子的空间分布呈现非对称性。     

黑腔中等离子体相互作用的流体力学现象观测

激光间接驱动惯性约束聚变实验中,黑腔内情况复杂,在激光烧蚀和辐射烧蚀等的驱动下,光斑区、冕区、纯辐射烧蚀区、射流区的多种等离子体以不同规律运动.发展了X光双能段窄能带的时间分辨成像方法,用以观测黑腔内多种等离子体的运动情况.在真空黑腔中观测到清晰的射流,分析了射流产生机制及其速度;在黑腔中充气,能有效消除射流和抑制冕区等离子体运动,但两种物质界面处可能会出现流体力学不稳定性等现象,分析了界面处的压力平衡关系和密度陡变情况.     

Phenomenon of apokamp discharge

A new phenomenon has been discovered where a bend of a plasma channel becomes of a source of one or several diffuse jets that have a length (at a given voltage) up to 4–6 cm and are directed across the plasma channel at a pulse-periodic spark discharge in air under normal conditions. The phenomenon is called apokamp discharge (apokamp). The spectrum of radiation of the apokamp includes primarily the bands of electron-vibrational transitions of the second positive system of molecular nitrogen. The conditions of the formation of apokamp have been experimentally revealed and it has been established that it consists of plasma bunches moving from the plasma channel at each pulse at a velocity of about 220 km/s.     

Z箍缩等离子体磁重联现象

分析了磁重联对晕等离子体加速和能量平衡过程的影响。分析表明晕等离子体向轴心的加速过程分为两个阶段:第一阶段晕等离子体在磁压或热压(依赖于丝数)作用下向轴心运动;第二阶段晕等离子体由于磁重联过程被加速到阿尔芬速度,并到达轴心形成先驱等离子体。估算表明重联层的厚度与离子的惯性长度具有相同的数量级,电流片内电子运动和离子的运动是解耦合的。在内爆滞止阶段电荷分离产生强的径向电场,这个电场将磁能转化为等离子体轴向(z方向)动能,内爆动能和轴向动能共同转化为X射线辐射能,以此解释了X射线能量大于内爆动能这一观测结果。分析了磁重联电磁脉冲的性质,对于1 MA驱动条件,电磁脉冲的总能量可达kJ量级。     

屏蔽气体对氩等离子体冲击射流的影响

在空气环境中利用氩等离子体射流进行材料加工时,环境空气卷吸进入射流可能会引起金属材料氧化。采用同轴屏蔽气体保护是减小该不利影响的一种可行方案。为此本文对空气环境中层流氩等离子体冲击射流特性受屏蔽气体影响问题进行了数值模拟研究,重点考察了屏蔽气体速度等对材料加工区氧含量的影响。     

纳秒脉冲放电等离子体射流特性

采用单针式电极,使用单极性重复频率脉冲电源,在常压氦气、氩气、氮气和空气中得到等离子体射流,并改变电压、流量和气体种类,分别观察不同的实验条件对等离子体射流的影响。实验结果表明:射流长度随施加电压的增加而增长;随着流量的连续变化,射流长度先逐渐变长,达到峰值后由于湍流影响,长度又逐渐缩短,达到一定流量后趋于饱和。此外,不同工作气体中的等离子体射流呈现截然不同的外观,氦气和氩气中射流呈针状模式,长度可达7 cm以上;而在氮气和空气中,射流呈现为长度不超过2 cm的刷状模式。     

Optical Radiation of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets Excited by a Barrier Discharge

Optics and Spectroscopy - The luminescence spectra of plasma jets formed by a barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure in argon–air and helium–air mixtures have been studied...     

Explosive plasma-vortex optical radiation sources

The results of experimental study of explosive radiation sources based on pulsed injection of a cumulative plasma jet into atmospheric air are considered. The injection process is accompanied with intense vortex formation as well as the formation of a large-scale toroidal plasma vortex. High-power electromagnetic radiation in the optical range is generated due to shock-wave processes during deceleration of a plasma jet in air and plasma-chemical processes in the vortex. The temporal structure of a radiation pulse being generated contains components from the micro- and millisecond range. For a 20-g mass of the explosive charge, a peak radiation power of 300 kW/sr and an energy yield of 400–600 J/sr integrated over the emission spectrum are attained. The efficiency of conversion of the chemical energy of the explosive into radiation is 5.0–7.5%.     

Azimuthal asymmetry of direct photons in high energy nuclear collisions

We show that a sizable azimuthal asymmetry, characterized by a coefficient nu2, is to be expected for large pT direct photons produced in noncentral high energy nuclear collisions. This signal is generated by photons radiated by jets interacting with the surrounding hot plasma. The anisotropy is out of phase by an angle pi/2 with respect to that associated with the elliptic anisotropy of hadrons, leading to negative values of nu2. Such an asymmetry, if observed, could be a signature for the presence of a quark gluon plasma and would establish the importance of jet-plasma interactions as a source of electromagnetic radiation.     

纳秒激光诱导空气等离子体射频辐射特性研究

开展了波长为532 nm、脉宽为8 ns的纳秒激光诱导空气等离子体射频电磁辐射特性实验研究,基于锥形天线探测空气等离子体在30-800 MHz频谱范围有较强的射频电磁辐射,是等离子体内电偶极子振荡变速运动造成的.实验结果表明:随激光能量增加,30-200 MHz范围内射频辐射强度逐渐变强,但360-600 MHz频率范围射频辐射强度逐渐变弱.等离子体射频辐射的空间分布依赖于入射激光的偏振方向,当激光偏振方向与天线放置方向一致时,该方向上空气等离子体的射频辐射强度高,谱线较丰富.射频辐射总功率随激光能量先增加后降低,采用等离子体电子密度变化对等离子体频率及等离子体衰减系数影响(制约)关系,对射频辐射总功率随激光能量的变化规律进行了解释.     

大气压冷等离子体射流研究进展

有许多种方法可用于在大气中产生等离子体射流,冷等离子体（离子温度在室温附近）射流即是其中的一种.近年来,人们发现氦气或其它惰性气体通过毛细管介质阻挡放电形成的冷等离子体射流具有类似子弹的传输特性,在有机材料表面改性、等离子体医学等领域获得了广泛的应用.通过专门设计的一系列实验,我们逐渐揭示了其产生机理,并深入研究了传输特性.文章简要介绍近年来我们所做的有关大气压冷等离子体的实验过程以及获得的一些重要结论.在对这种等离子体深入了解的基础上,作者还开发了一种新装置,该装置的最大特点是既利用了氦气在辅助放电方面的特性,又不消耗这种昂贵的资源;并且它还特别适合于在臭氧层修复、等离子体医学等方面的应用.     

激光驱动薄膜产生等离子体射流的条件分析

 以聚乙烯薄膜材料为研究对象,从实验物态方程出发,对强激光驱动薄膜材料时影响激光在薄膜后表面形成等离子体射流的主要因素,包括激光强度、波长、脉宽、气库膜材料及厚度,进行了理论和数值分析。研究表明,到达薄膜后表面的冲击波强度足够高时,能够产生气态或等离子体射流,否则卸载过程仍然为凝聚态;对于聚乙烯材料,形成等离子体射流的基本条件是到达薄膜后表面的冲击波强度达到约80 GPa以上;采用短波长、较高功率密度、较长激光脉宽的激光驱动具有低汽化温度、低电离阈值的薄靶,更容易实现等离子体射流。     

吸气式激光推进中激光能量沉积过程的数值模拟

 结合辐射输运方程,在流体力学方程组的能量方程中加入包括空气吸收的激光能量以及高温气体向周围辐射损失的能量源项,转化为辐射流体力学方程组,建立了用于模拟吸气式激光推进中能量沉积过程的物理力学模型和计算方法。该辐射流体力学计算程序可以很好地模拟激光能量沉积过程中空气对激光能量的吸收、等离子体对激光的屏蔽作用以及激光维持的爆轰波的传播规律,计算得到激光能量的沉积效率约为57%,激光维持的爆轰波的传播速度与同等条件下的理论和实验结果吻合得较好。     

Bactericidal Components in Helium and Air Plasma Jets of a Dielectric Barrier Discharge

Journal of Applied Spectroscopy - The component composition of plasma jets generated by a dielectric barrier discharge in helium and air at atmospheric pressure was studied by emission and...     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Z</Emphasis><Superscript>0</Superscript>-tagged quark jets at the large hadron collider

The Large Hadron Collider will allow studies of hard probes in nucleus-nucleus collisions which were not accessible at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—even the study of small cross-section Z ⁰-tagged jets becomes possible. Going beyond the measurement of back-to-back correlations of two strongly interacting particles to measure plasma properties, we replace one side by an electromagnetic probe which propagates through the plasma undisturbed and therefore provides a measurement of the energy of the initial hard scattering. We show that at sufficiently high transverse momentum the Z ⁰-tagged jets originate predominately from the fragmentation of quarks and anti-quarks while gluon jets are suppressed. We propose to use lepton-pair tagged jets to study medium-induced partonic energy loss and to measure in-medium parton fragmentation functions to determine the opacity of the quark gluon plasma.     

等腰三角形湍流射流的流动特性实验研究

对喷嘴等效直径相同出口Reynolds数均为15000的3种等腰三角形（顶角分别为30,60和90°）以及圆形孔口射流进行了流场显示与速度场测量.结果表明:相比于圆形射流,等腰三角形射流的出口中心线速度衰减更快,湍流度更高,三角形射流卷吸周围流体能力显著增强.随着三角形顶角减小,近场区涡结构三维性更强,卷吸效果更明显.此外,对不同射流的中心线湍动能谱概率密度函数Taylor尺度和Kolmogorov尺度进行了分析讨论,发现出口形状对湍流小尺度运动的影响较小.