超短脉冲强激光与固体靶相互作用中Kα射线的实验研究

在相对论激光强度下，对p偏振30 fs激光与固体Cu靶相互作用中产生的Kα射线进行了实验研究.采用刀边成像技术和单光子计数X射线CCD相结合的探测装置，在单发激光脉冲打靶时同时得到X射线源的尺寸、能谱以及Kα光子的转换效率等多种信息.实验结果与Reich等人的理论计算结果有明显的差异，Kα光子的能量转换效率在激光功率密度为1.6×10¹⁸W/cm²的条件下达到最大值7.08×10^-6/sr.根据这一结果并结合蒙特卡罗程序，推断出在这一聚焦光强下激光能量转换为前向超热电子的效率约为10%.

Experimental study on Kα X-ray emission from intense femtosecond laser-solid interactions

The characteristics of Kα X-ray sources generated by p-polarized femtosecond laser-solid interactions are experimentally studied in the relativistic regime. By use of knife-edge image technique and a single-photon-counting X-ray CCD camera, we obtaine the source size, the spectrum and the conversion efficiency of the Kα X-ray sources. The experimental results show that the conversion efficiency of Kα photons reaches an optimum value of 7.08×10^-6/sr at the laser intensity of 1.6×10¹⁸W/cm², which is different from the Reich's simulation results (Reich et al., 2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 4846). We find that about 10% of laser energy is converted into the forward hot electrons at the laser intensity of 1.6×10¹⁸W/cm².