A comparative study of the ionic keV X-ray line emission from plasma produced by the femtosecond,picosecond and nanosecond duration laser pulses |
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Authors: | V ARORA P A NAIK B S RAO P D GUPTA |
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Institution: | 1.Laser Plasma Division,Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology,Indore,India |
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Abstract: | We report here an experimental study of the ionic keV X-ray line emission from magnesium plasma produced by laser pulses of
three widely different pulse durations (FWHM) of 45 fs, 25 ps and 3 ns, at a constant laser fluence of ∼1.5 × 104 J cm − 2. It is observed that the X-ray yield of the resonance lines from the higher ionization states such as H- and He-like ions
decreases on decreasing the laser pulse duration, even though the peak laser intensities of 3.5 × 1017 W cm − 2 for the 45 fs pulses and 6.2 × 1014 W cm − 2 for the 25 ps pulses are much higher than 5 × 1012 W cm − 2 for the 3 ns laser pulse. The results were explained in terms of the ionization equilibrium time for different ionization
states in the heated plasma. The study can be useful to make optimum choice of the laser pulse duration to produce short pulse
intense X-ray line emission from the plasma and to get the knowledge of the degree of ionization in the plasma. |
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