激光与固体靶相互作用中低密度预等离子体对高能电子产生的影响

 对线极化、圆极化的超短超强激光脉冲与靶前有一段低密度预等离子体的固体靶的相互作用进行了理论和粒子模拟研究。激光通过有质动力加速机制加速预等离子体中的电子，研究了电子获得的最大能量随激光强度和预等离子体密度的变化。当激光脉冲与靶直接作用时，靶中的电子由于J×B机制而得到加速，所获得的能量比预等离子体中电子低。研究表明，在超短超强激光脉冲与固体靶相互作用中，预等离子体的存在有利于高能电子的产生。     

超强线极化激光在e-p等离子体中传播的成丝不稳定性

基于超强线极化激光在正负电子对(e-p)等离子体中的传播方程,讨论了相互作用过程中的成丝不稳定性。得到了电磁波的非线性色散关系和不稳定性增长率,并讨论了传播过程中激光强度和等离子体温度对成丝不稳定性的影响。结果表明,成丝不稳定性的强弱主要由相互作用的非线性效应与受有质动力作用后等离子体密度的减小之间的竞争所决定。     

用类He离子谱线强度比测量激光产生等离子体电子温度和密度

一、引言在X光激光(XRL)和惯性约束聚变(ICF)研究中,等离子体电子温度和密度是表征等离子体状态的重要参数之一。虽然等离子体辐射各谱线强度与发射源的温度,密度和离子丰度直接相关,但要得到各谱线的绝对强度是很困难的,因为用于测量谱线强度探测器的绝对刻度相当困难。早在70年代初,苏联Aglitskii等首次用类He离子谱线强度比测量等离子体电子温度和密度。由于用该方法测量等离子体电子温度和密度可避免对探测器绝对     

激光等离子体受激散射的线性理论研究

利用包含两种阻尼(Landau阻尼和碰撞阻尼)成分的受激拉曼散射(SRS)、受激布里渊散射线性分析程序LIP,在给定的等离子体状态下分析了阻尼成分、激光强度以及等离子体组分对点火尺度等离子体中受激散射不稳定性发展的影响.详细评估了碰撞阻尼的效应,发现碰撞阻尼在接近1/4临界密度处能有效抑制受激散射的增长,从而造成SRS光谱上的"缝"现象.同时,电子温度的升高会在特定的密度区域促进SRS的发展.研究结果可为点火实验的设计提供参考.     

小焦斑纳秒激光烧蚀铝平面靶的数值研究

用二维辐射流体程序Flash模拟了小焦斑纳秒激光与铝平面靶的相互作用过程,其中入射激光的聚焦半径为25μm,峰值强度约为1013 W/cm2,波长为532nm。模拟发现激光通道上的等离子体出现了密度排空的现象,激光焦斑外侧出现环状的射流结构。激光通道上密度排空现象对电子热输运的计算较为敏感,对比干涉实验测量的密度分布,确定了模拟中限流因子的取值为0.08。通过考察辐射致冷与电子横向热输运对等离子体膨胀运动的影响,对环状射流结构的形成原因给出了物理解释,并在模拟上验证了辐射冷却在其形成过程中的主导作用。     

Compton散射对激光等离子体通道寿命的影响

为了研究多光子非线性Compton散射对飞秒激光退吸附作用对等离子体通道寿命的影响,应用多光子非线性Compton散射模型和强飞秒激光在空气中产生等离子体通道内带电粒子动力学模型,提出了多光子非线性Compton散射是影响等离子体辐射阻尼和通道寿命的一个重要机制,给出了等离子体通道中带电粒子的修正动力学方程,并进行了数值计算和实验研究。结果表明：散射削弱了自由电子对氧分子的吸附和正负离子的复合,有效地补偿了等离子体的辐射阻尼效应,后续激光脉宽和间隔以及Compton散射是影响等离子体辐射阻尼和通道寿命的关键因素,理论计算与实验结果较好的吻合。     

激光脉冲能量对激光诱导铝合金等离子体物理特性的影响

为研究激光脉冲能量对激光诱导等离子体辐射特性和膨胀过程的影响,采用ICCD相机对不同激光脉冲能量激发的铝合金等离子体进行快速成像,并利用Boltzmann斜线法和Stark展宽法分析等离子体的电子温度和电子数密度随激光脉冲能量的演化规律.实验结果表明,激光诱导等离子体呈现明显的分层结构,等离子体的激发阈值约为3mJ,等离子体不同区域的面积随激光脉冲能量变化呈现不同的特征.当激光脉冲能量低于10mJ时,等离子体的分层结构不显著.激光脉冲能量从10mJ增加到100mJ过程中,等离子体电子温度从4 980K升高到7 221K,等离子体的电子数密度在1017 cm-3量级并随激光能量增加而增大且趋于饱和.     

Compton散射对激光等离子体通道寿命的影响

为了研究多光子非线性Compton散射对飞秒激光退吸附作用对等离子体通道寿命的影响,应用多光子非线性Compton散射模型和强飞秒激光在空气中产生等离子体通道内带电粒子动力学模型,提出了多光子非线性Compton散射是影响等离子体辐射阻尼和通道寿命的一个重要机制,给出了等离子体通道中带电粒子的修正动力学方程,并进行了数值计算和实验研究.结果表明:散射削弱了自由电子对氧分子的吸附和正负离子的复合,有效地补偿了等离子体的辐射阻尼效应,后续激光脉宽和间隔以及Compton散射是影响等离子体辐射阻尼和通道寿命的关键因素,理论计算与实验结果较好的吻合.     

量子电动力学—粒子模拟极端等离子体动力学研究

新一代拍瓦激光装置有望将激光强度提升至10²³~10²⁴ W·cm^-2,在此极端强场条件下非线性量子电动力学效应对等离子体动力学过程产生重要影响.相对论电子在强电磁场作用下会同步辐射大量伽马光子,当后者穿过超强电磁场时会级联产生正负电子对.与此同时,这些量子电动力学效应也会反作用于激光等离子体相互作用过程,如辐射阻尼严重影响电子运动过程.为了研究这样极端的等离子体动力学,我们介绍最近几年发展的量子电动力学数值模拟模块,并将其耦合到传统的粒子模拟程序中,即量子电动力学-粒子模拟程序.由于大量新辐射的光子和产生的正负电子对会造成模拟粒子数目的不断增加,我们发展了粒子融合技术来减小模拟规模.利用此量子电动力学-粒子模拟程序,我们对极端强场激光物质相互作用以及极端天体物理现象开展了数值模拟研究.     

相对论效应对激光在等离子体中的共振吸收的影响

采用一维粒子模拟(PIC)方法，研究了相对论效应对P偏振激光斜入射非均匀等离子体时产生的共振吸收的影响. 计算表明，弱相对论情况下，在临界面附近产生的电子等离子体波的相对论非线性效应占主要作用；随着入射光场的逐渐增大，吸收率逐渐降低. 当入射光强超过3.7×10¹⁷W/cm²时，由于超短激光脉冲本身在等离子体中产生相对论效应、等离子体波破裂效应，以及参量不稳定过程激发等，吸收系数随着激光强度又开始增加. 固定等离子体密度标长，取不同的激光入射角、电子初始温度，相对论效应对吸收系数的影响是一致的. 关键词： 激光等离子体 相对论效应 共振吸收 粒子模拟     

Schwinger limit attainability with extreme power lasers

High intensity colliding laser pulses can create abundant electron-positron pair plasma [A. R. Bell and J. G. Kirk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200403 (2008)], which can scatter the incoming electromagnetic waves. This process can prevent one from reaching the critical field of quantum electrodynamics at which vacuum breakdown and polarization occur. Considering the pairs are seeded by the Schwinger mechanism, it is shown that the effects of radiation friction and the electron-positron avalanche development in vacuum depend on the electromagnetic wave polarization. For circularly polarized colliding pulses, these effects dominate not only the particle motion but also the evolution of the pulses. For linearly polarized pulses, these effects are not as strong. There is an apparent analogy of these cases with circular and linear electron accelerators to the corresponding constraining and reduced roles of synchrotron radiation losses.     

Laser-induced ion acceleration at ultra-high laser intensities

Ion acceleration by ultrashort laser pulses of very high intensities of the order 10²²?W/cm² is studied by two-dimensional Particle-In-Cell simulations. We show that laser normal incidence is preferred for such high intensities. For linearly polarized laser radiation, higher maximum proton/ion energies are achieved than for circular polarization. For linear polarization, the transition from the target normal sheath acceleration to the acceleration on the target front side by the radiation pressure is analyzed in detail. The transition intensity is increasing with the target thickness. The radiation pressure dominated regime leads to considerably higher number of accelerated protons and thus to a higher acceleration efficiency.     

Formation of periodic surface nanostructures on Ti:Al2O3 crystals using femtosecond laser pulses

Periodic surface nanostructures are observed on Ti³⁺:Al₂O₃ single crystals that have been irradiated by a single focused beam from a femtosecond pulsed laser (wavelength: 800 nm; pulse duration: 130 and 152 fs). Atomic force microscopy images of single-ablated zones and modified structures created by fixing and translating samples through the focal region of a linearly polarized laser beam reveal self-organized periodic surface nanostructures (ripples) with a subwavelength spacing, which are oriented perpendicular to the electric-field vector of the laser beam. The period of the subwavelength ripples obtained by linearly polarized laser irradiation varies from ∼λ/5 to 2λ/5 (λ: incident laser wavelength) depending on the laser pulse energy. This phenomenon can be explained by assuming that the incident light field interferes with the electric field of electron plasma waves propagating inside the material; this interference periodically modulates the electron plasma density and modifies the surface ablation. In addition, for the first time, we observe screw-shaped nanostructures in the focal spot of circularly polarized beam irradiation. The morphology of these nanostructures appears to reflect the circular polarization of the laser light.     

影响单电子非线性汤姆孙散射因素的研究

应用电子汤姆孙散射的经典理论，通过理论分析和计算机模拟，研究了超短超强激光脉冲作用下电子产生的辐射脉冲的性质.计算表明，在这种情况下，电子的辐射通常以阿秒脉冲列的形式出现.讨论了不同激光场参数（包括激光强度、脉宽、初相位和偏振态）、不同电子初始状态（初始速度和位置）对辐射脉冲的时间和空间特性的影响.通常在相对论光强条件下，激光强度越大，电子辐射越强，脉宽越窄，中心频率越大，并且方向性越好；电子在线偏振激光中产生的辐射效率，比在同样强度下圆偏振激光中产生的效率更高；无论入射光是线偏振光，还是圆偏振光,辐射场呈现较复杂的偏振态, 并且它与辐射方向有关.当电子具有一定的初始能量时，通常辐射场的振幅随电子初始能量的增大而增大.不管电子的初始能量以及运动方向如何，做相对论运动的电子产生的辐射趋向于出现在靠近电子运动方向的角度区域.     

Muon Motion Induced by a Superintense Laser in Muon‐Catalyzed Fusion

Considering the mixture after muon‐catalyzed fusion (μ CF) reaction as overdense plasma, we study muon motion in the plasma produced by a superintense linearly polarized femtosecond laser pulse. Muon drift along the propagation of laser radiation remains after the end of the laser pulse. At the peak laser intensity of 10²¹W/cm², muon goes from the skin layer into field‐free matter at short time which is much less than the pulse duration, before the laser pulse reaches its maximum. Besides, the influence of the laser on other particles in the plasma is less. Hence, this work can avoid muon sticking to alpha (α) effectively and reduce muon‐loss probability in μ CF. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Quasistatic magnetic fields generated by a nonrelativistic intense laser pulse in uniform underdense plasma

Quasistatic magnetic fields generated by nonrelativistic intense linearly polarized (LP) and circularly polarized (CP) laser pulses in an initially uniform underdense plasma in the collision-dominated limit are investigated analytically. Using a selfconsistent analytical model, we perform a detailed derivation of quasistatic magnetic fields in the laser pulse envelope in the collision-dominated limit to obtain exact analytical expressions for magnetic fields and discuss the dependence of magnetic fields on laser and plasma parameters. Equations for quasistatic magnetic fields including both axial component B_z and the azimuthal one B_θ are derived simultaneously from such a selfconsistent model. The dependence of quasistatic magnetic field on incident laser intensity, transverse focused radius of laser pulse, electron density and electron temperature is discussed.     

飞秒脉冲激光作用下电子振荡导致的辐射空间分布特性

 采用单电子模型研究了不同偏振、不同强度飞秒脉冲激光作用下电子振荡导致的辐射的空间分布特性。研究发现:随着激光强度的增加,对圆偏振激光脉冲,电子辐射的空间分布由全空间分布变为前向双叶型结构,而对线偏振激光脉冲,电子辐射的空间分布由类似于偶极天线辐射特性的四重对称双叶结构变为双重对称三叶型结构,这可以为实验研究电子的辐射提供空间分布的相关依据。     

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.     

Electron dynamics and spatial characteristics of emission from electron oscillation driven by femtosecond laser pulses

The dynamics and characteristics of spatial distribution of emission are analyzed with a single electron model in the cases of different intensities and different polarized femtosecond laser pulses. It is discovered that with the increase of laser intensity, for circularly polarized laser pulse, the angular distribution is tipped forward more and more; for linearly polarized laser pulse, the radiation pattern is changed from the fourfold rotational symmetry bifoliate pattern same as that from a dipole antenna to twofold rotational symmetry trefoil pattern.     

Short wavelength X-ray emission generated by highly excited cluster beams

X-ray radiation is studied for large clusters consisting of 10⁷–10¹⁰ atoms and irradiated by an intense laser pulse with an intensity ranged from (10¹⁴ up to 10¹⁸ W/cm²). The model is developed for such a laser plasma that includes the radiative transitions and the processes of excitation and quenching of multicharged ions of this plasma by electron impact. Due to interaction of a radiating multicharged ion with a surrounding plasma, spectral lines of emission are broaden and neighboring spectral lines are overlapped. As a result, the spectrum of radiation of multicharged ions is transformed into a continuous spectral band. The model under consideration includes important plasma processes including dielectronic recombination, spontaneous radiation, excitation, quenching and ionization of multicharged ions by electron impact. On the basis of the model developed the X-ray spectrum and spectral power are evaluated. In the range of laser intensities under consideration a laser plasma formed contains multicharged ions with charges Z = 26?36 that corresponds to the 3d-electron shell in the xenon case.