用声学诊断方法测量激光等离子体通道的长度与电子密度

用声学诊断方法对超短脉冲强激光在空气中传输形成的等离子体通道进行了测量，根据通道不同位置的声音信号，得到了通道的长度和通道内电子密度等信息. 关键词： 声学测量 等离子体通道     

空气中激光等离子体通道的荧光探测和声学诊断两种方法的比较实验研究

使用荧光探测和声学诊断两种方法，对超强飞秒激光脉冲在空气中传输形成的等离子体通道同时进行了测量.两种方法都很好地反映了等离子体通道的演化过程.对两种方法的比较研究发现，声学诊断相对于荧光探测方法来说，具有较高的灵敏度和空间分辨能力，实验装置也更简单，更适宜于等离子体通道的常规测量. 关键词： 强飞秒激光等离子体通道 荧光探测 声学诊断     

激光等离子体的声学诊断研究

提出了利用激光等离子体声波对高功率激光与材料相互作用过程进行了诊断的方法。实际测量了波长０．５３μｍ激光与几种金属材料相互作用的过程，其结果与采用春它方法得到的结果基本吻合。     

超短脉冲强激光在空气中的传输

超短脉冲强激光在空气中传输时由于非线性克尔自聚焦效应会使激光光束聚焦，造成空气的离化而形成等离子体，等离子体对激光光束又会产生散焦作用，这两种过程的动态平衡可以形成很长的等离子体通道，从而产生一系列复杂而有趣的现象．文章对通道形成的机理、锥角辐射、超连续谱和三次谐波的产生进行了阐述，并介绍了目前等离子体通道形成的几种理论模型．文章还对通道内的各种复合和辐射机制进行了分析．     

大气中激光等离子体通道寿命的延长及测量分析

介绍了一种反卷积方法.利用该方法分析了实验中测得的等离子体通道的光电信号特征，获 得了空气中等离子体通道的真实寿命.还证明了利用双脉冲激光结构，可以将等离子体寿命 延长近5倍. 关键词： 反卷积 大气激光等离子体通道 等离子体寿命     

空气中激光等离子体通道导电性能的研究

超强飞秒激光在大气中传输时，可以形成很长的等离子体通道.对通道电阻率和测量电极与等离子体通道间的接触电阻进行了测量，并对影响等离子体通道电阻率的主要因素进行了研究分析.提出减小等离子体通道电阻的方案. 关键词： 等离子体通道 电阻率 接触电阻     

Thomson散射诊断技术的新进展

Thomson散射是一种主动而无干扰地对等离子体进行诊断的方法．它能够以较高的时空分辨率测量等离子体的参数，如电子与离子温度、密度以及等离子体的膨胀速度、电离程度、热流等参数．文章从Thomson散射基本概念出发，介绍了Thomson散射诊断方法在研究激光与等离子体相互作用中的重要意义，并分别介绍了近年来Thomson散射诊断技术的新进展，如对高Z等离子体、两种离子种类的等离子体、多种形态等离子体以及高密度等离子体的研究．文章最后对国内Thomson散射诊断技术的发展状况进行了简述．     

空气中激光等离子体通道的三次谐波辐射研究

对超强飞秒激光脉冲在空气中形成的长等离子体通道的三次谐波辐射进行了研究．实验研究发现三次谐波的转换效率在通道范围内基本保持不变.还对等离子体通道锥角辐射中的三次 谐波的辐射角进行了研究，结果表明其辐射角接近6mrad，与理论计算结果符合得很好． 关键词： 三次谐波 等离子体通道     

放电等离子体高精度空间分辨光谱测量方法

放电等离子体光谱技术及激光诱导击穿光谱技术由于实验系统相对简单、信号强,很早就被应用于组分测量领域。由于自由放电在时间和空间上都具有随机性,这使得放电等离子体空间分辨光谱的精确测量变得十分困难;而激光诱导击穿光谱技术又局限于点测量。介绍了一种基于飞秒激光诱导的放电等离子体一维空间分辨光谱的高精度测量方法。飞秒激光自聚焦可以形成一段丝状弱等离子体通道,将该等离子体通道靠近高压直流脉冲电极时,可作为高压电极放电的触发源。这种触发方式可在规定的时刻触发高压电并诱导其沿着等离子体通道的路径击穿气体。实验多次测量放电开始时刻与激光到达时刻的时间间隔的波动小于0.01μs,证实了使用本方法诱导高压放电具有很高的重复性。由此可知,利用飞秒激光自聚焦成丝产生的弱等离子体通道诱导高压放电,可实现对高压放电的空间和时间的精确控制,进而可以采集放电等离子体通道的一维空间分辨光谱。实验结果表明,在喷管结构主导的流场环境中,由于喷管中纯N_2与喷管外空气的组分不同,在高空间分辨光谱中,可以清晰地看到一维等离子体通道上不同位置的组分浓度变化情况。在一维空间分辨光谱中将N~+和O光谱信号强度与N_2和O_2的浓度进行关联,可实现流场组分的一维在线诊断。该方法不仅具有纳秒激光诱导击穿光谱技术的相同优点,还具有一维空间分辨能力,在组分一维精确测量方面极具优势。同时,该方法还有望实现高时间分辨测量,对研究放电等离子体的时空演化过程具有重要的意义。     

超短脉冲激光在引导闪电中的应用

超短超强激光可以在大气中引起非线性效应以及产生等离子体，超短超强激光在非线性自聚焦和等离子体散焦的平衡可以使激光在大气中传播很长的距离，从而产生一条较长的低密度的等离子体通道，文章对其形成的原理和利用其引导闪电的可行性进行阐述，说明该通道在外场下可以触发和引导闪电到安全地点，对其机制的深入研究对工业和国防应用具有重要的意义。     

空气中单个激光等离子体通道的形成条件

利用皮秒和飞秒激光研究了激光在空气中聚焦产生单个等离子体通道的条件.研究发现，能量为8—12mJ皮秒激光被焦距为15cm的透镜聚焦后，可以产生较为稳定的单个通道.通过横向纵向阴影成像分析发现，通道的管壁对聚焦产生的自发光具有箍缩作用，而通道内部却有利于光的传输.同时还发现，当采用短焦距透镜时，能量低于10mJ的飞秒激光在空气中较易形成单个等离子通道. 关键词： 等离子体通道 皮秒激光 飞秒激光 阴影成像     

Physical properties of relativistic electron beam during long-range propagation in space plasma environment

It is known that ion channel can effectively limit the radial expansion of an artificial electron beam during its longrange propagation in the space plasma environment. Most prior studies discussed the focusing characteristics of the beam in the ion channel, but the establishment process and transient properties of the ion channel itself, which also plays a crucial role during the propagation of the relativistic electron beam in the plasma environment, were commonly neglected. In this study, a series of two-dimensional(2 D) particle-in-cell simulations is performed and an analytical model of ion channel oscillation is constructed according to the single-particle motion. The results showed that when the beam density is higher than the density of plasma environment, ion channel can be established and always continues to oscillate periodically over the entire propagation. Multiple factors, including the beam electron density, initial beam radius, and the plasma density can affect the oscillation properties of ion channel. Axial velocity of the beam oscillates synchronously with the ion channel and this phenomenon will finally develop into a two-stream instability which can seriously affect the effective transport for relativistic electron beam. Choosing appropriate beam parameters based on various plasma environments may contribute to the improvement of the stability of ion channel. Additionally, radial expansion of the beam can be limited by ion channel and a stable long-range propagation in terrestrial atmosphere may be achieved.     

Plasma channel formed by ultraviolet laser pulses at 193 nm in air

The propagation of picosecond deep ultraviolet laser pulse at wavelength of 193 nm in air is numerically investigated. Long plasma channel can be formed due to the competition between Kerr self-focusing and ionization induced defocusing. The plasma channel with electron density of above 10^13/cm^3 can be formed over 70 m by 50-ps, 20-mJ laser pulses. The fluctuation of laser intensity and electron density inside ultraviolet （UV） plasma channel is significantly lower UV laser by air is considered in the simulation and it the limit of the length of plasma channel. than that of infrared pulse. The linear absorption of is shown that the linear absorption is important for the limit of the length of plasma channel.     

超短脉冲激光产生等离子体通道寿命研究

利用强飞秒激光在大气中产生等离子体通道内带电粒子的动力学模型,综合考虑二体吸附、三体吸附、离解和复合等因素,分析后续激光退吸附作用对等离子体通道寿命的影响,给出有效延长通道寿命的后续激光控制参量。计算表明,选择不同的激光注入形式和注入时间,对通道寿命的延长有着不同的效果,适当优化的激光可以延长通道寿命达25 s以上。     

Dynamics of plasma channel in a parallel-plate plasma gun

Lumped parameter models for describing dynamics of the plasma channel in a parallel-plate plasma gun are compared with the experimental results obtained from two plasma guns with different rail geometries. Comparison between the experiments and the numerical calculations reveals that the lumped parameter models can be utilized to describe the dynamic motion of the plasma channel quite well. Parametric study shows that minimizing the line inductance and increasing the charging voltage on a capacitor as well as minimizing the gas injection time for reducing the mass of the plasma channel are the key factors to increase the flow velocity of the plasma jet ejected from the plasma gun.     

Excitation of accelerating wakefields in inhomogeneous plasmas

The excitation of the wakefields in an inhomogeneous plasma by a short laser pulse is investigated theoretically. A general equation for the wake excitation in transversely nonuniform plasma is derived. This equation is applied to the step-function density profile model of hollow channel laser wakefield accelerator. A more realistic model, in which the transition between the evacuated channel and the homogeneous surrounding plasma occurs over a finite radial extent, is then analyzed. It is shown that the excited channel made can interact resonantly with the plasma electrons inside the channel wall, leading to secular growth of the electric field. This eventually results in wavebreaking and the dissipation of the accelerating mode. We introduce an effective quality factor Q for the hollow channel laser wakefield geometry. This resonance limits the number of electron bunches that can be accelerated in the wake of single laser pulse     

对超短脉冲激光引雷产生的等离子体通道的特性分析

 利用隧道电离诱导闪电模型,对超短脉冲激光在大气中产生弱等离子体通道的电阻和阈值强度进行了分析和计算。结果显示：强度为10¹⁴ W/cm²量级的超短脉冲激光产生的气体等离子体通道有较好的导电性,所需激光能量很小, 说明在该模型下激光能量的利用效率很高。     

Plasma-induced spatiotemporal modulation of propagating femtosecond pulses

The dynamics of the femtosecond pulse propagation in a plasma channel is investigated by the pumpprobe longitudinal diffractometry and second harmonic generation frequency-resolved optical gating (SHGFROG) technique. The spatial characteristics, corresponding to the electronic density and the size of the channel, can be observed by the recorded ring pattern, and the spectral and temporal characteristics are recorded by the SHG-FROG traces. The spatiotemporal characteristics will help us to better understand the dynamics of the plasma induced by the femtosecond pulse and the femtosecond pulse propagating in the plasma channel.