飞秒激光氘团簇库仑爆炸引发核聚变的机理研究

在超强飞秒激光与氘团簇的相互作用中，利用库仑爆炸模型，分析了可以引发核聚变的高能氘核产生的机理，提出了氘离子团簇膨胀尺寸与时间的关系式，计算了多种尺寸的氘团簇库仑爆炸时氘核的动能以及氘团簇的解体时间． 关键词： 飞秒强激光 氘团簇 库仑爆炸 核聚变     

Routes to control of H2 Coulomb explosion in few-cycle laser pulses

We have measured coincident ion pairs produced in the Coulomb explosion of H2 by 8-30 fs laser pulses at different laser intensities. We show how the Coulomb explosion of H2 can be experimentally controlled by tuning the appropriate pulse duration and laser intensity. For laser pulses less than 15 fs, we found that the rescattering-induced Coulomb explosion is dominated by first-return recollisions, while for longer pulses and at the proper laser intensity, the third return can be made to be the major one. Additionally, by choosing suitable pulse duration and laser intensity, we show H2 Coulomb explosion proceeding through three distinct processes that are simultaneously observable, each exhibiting different characteristics and revealing distinctive time information about the H2 evolution in the laser pulse.     

Coulomb explosion of the hot spot of micropinches

It has been shown that the generation of hard X-ray radiation, electron beam, and high energy ions that have been detected in experiments on compressing pinches can be related to the Coulomb explosion of a micropinch hot spot, which is formed due to the outflow of the material. In the outflow process, the plasma temperature in the hot spot increases and conditions appear for the transition of electrons to the regime of continuous acceleration. The exit of runaway electrons from the hot spot region leads to the creation of a positive bulk charge, then to a Coulomb explosion. Conditions under which electrons pass to the continuous acceleration regime have been determined and estimates of the ion kinetic energy upon a Coulomb explosion have been obtained.     

Coulomb explosion patterns of fast C60 clusters in solids

The molecular dynamics method is used to simulate Coulomb explosion of fast C60 ion clusters in an Al target, taking into account dynamical screening of interionic interactions by the electron gas of the target. It is found that the wake forces in the medium are strong enough, depending on cluster speed, to stabilize the whole cluster against Coulomb explosion, or to compress the trailing part of the cluster, for prolonged times of penetration through the target. This is encouraging news for such cluster-ion beams applications where massive energy depositions in small volumes of targets are desired.     

Control of the Coulomb explosion of I<Subscript>2</Subscript>

We present calculated results for the optimization highly-charged fragment ion formation in the Coulomb explosion of I₂ in an intense laser field. Calculations are performed using a simple genetic algorithm and a classical model for the Coulomb explosion process. We find that at low intensity the production of highly-charged fragment ions is optimized by a Fourier-limited pulse, whereas at higher intensity the Coulomb explosion is optimized by a sequence of pulses, with a time-separation determined by enhanced ionization at the critical internuclear distance. Our calculations provide insight into the sensitivity of adaptive pulse shaping experiments to the parameters and evolutionary approaches used.Received: 6 January 2003, Published online: 15 July 2003PACS: 33.80.Rv Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states (e.g., Rydberg states) - 82.53.Eb Pump probe studies of photodissociation - 02.60.Pn Numerical optimization     

Coulomb explosion and thermal spikes

A fast ion can electronically excite a solid producing a track of damage, a process initially used to detect energetic particles but now used to alter materials. From the seminal paper by Fleischer et al. [Phys. Rev. 156, 353 (1967)] to the present, "Coulomb explosion" and thermal spike models have been often treated as competing models for describing ion track effects. Here molecular dynamics simulations of electronic sputtering, a surface manifestation of track formation, show that in the absence of significant quenching Coulomb explosion in fact produces a spike at high excitation density, but the standard spike models are incorrect.     

强激光场中氘团簇双重膨胀引发核聚变

在超强fs激光与氘团簇的相互作用中, 分析了可以引发核聚变的高能氘核产生的原因,提出了团簇双重膨胀的机制,计算了氘核动能及团簇解体的时间, 为选取合适的激光脉冲宽度参数提供参考. Considering the Coulomb explosion induced by the interaction of a deuterium cluster target with ultra intensity femtosecond laser,the causation which generate energetic deuterium nuclei for the fusion has been analyzed. The mechanism for the dual explosion of deuterium cluster is proposed, and hence the velocity of deuterium nuclei and the expansion time of deuterium ion clusters have been estimated.     

Energetic ion generation by Coulomb explosion in cluster gas and a low-density plastic foam with an intense femtosecond laser

The energy distributions of protons emitted from the Coulomb explosion of hydrogen clusters by an intense femtosecond laser have been experimentally obtained. Ten thousand hydrogen clusters were exploded, emitting 8.1-keV protons under laser irradiation of intensity 6 × 10¹⁶W/cm². The energy distributions are interpreted well by a spherical uniform cluster analytical model. The maximum energy of the emitted protons can be characterized by cluster size and laser intensity. The laser intensity scale for the maximum proton energy, given by a spherical cluster Coulomb explosion model, is in fairly good agreement with the experimental results obtained at a laser intensity of 10¹⁶–10¹⁷ W/cm² and also when extrapolated with the results of three-dimensional particle simulations at 10²⁰–10²¹ W/cm². Energetic proton generation in low-density plastic (C₅H₁₀) foam by intense femtosecond laser pulse irradiation has been studied experimentally and numerically. Plastic foam was successfully produced by a sol-gel method, achieving an average density of 10 mg/cm³. The foam target was irradiated by 100-fs pulses of a laser with intensity 1 × 10¹⁸ W/cm². A plateau structure extending up to 200 keV was observed in the energy distribution of protons generated from the foam target, with the plateau shape explained well by Coulomb explosion of lamella in the foam. The laser-foam interaction and ion generation were studied qualitatively by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, which indicated that energetic protons are mainly generated by the Coulomb explosion. From the results, the efficiency of energetic ion generation in a low-density foam target by Coulomb explosion is expected to be higher than in a gas-cluster target.     

激光场中一维和三维氢分子离子模型经典动力学行为的比较

应用经典轨迹方法,采用辛算法数值求解激光场中的一维和三维氢分子离子(H2 )的Hamilton正则方程,得到氢分子离子在激光场作用下的经典轨迹,并比较分析氢分子离子一维模型与三维模型的存活、解离、电离和库仑爆炸等动力学行为,以及电子的运动情况的相似之处.数值结果表明,采用一维模型能近似定性反映氢分子离子的动力学行为,并且简便可行.     

H3+立体化学结构的测量

本文报道了用“库仑爆炸”技术对H₃⁺分子离子的立体化学结构测量。实验表明:H₃⁺的结构为正三角形,其最可几质子间距的平均值为0.98±0.03?。文中还介绍了我们的高分辨实验装置。 关键词：     

氢分子离子库仑爆炸中核动力学的理论研究

在非Born-Oppenheimer近似条件下, 通过数值求解一维含时薛定谔方程, 理论模拟了氢分子离子处于不同初始核振动态的库仑爆炸核动能释放谱并探究了氢分子离子发生库仑爆炸时的核动力学. 数值结果表明: 初始核振动态的选取在很大程度上影响着氢分子离子发生库仑爆炸时的核动力学,且高低振动态的选取分别对其核动力学的影响呈现出相反的变化趋势.     

Coulomb explosion of CS_2 molecule under an intense femtosecond laser field

We experimentally demonstrate the Coulomb explosion process of CS_2 molecule under a near-infrared(800 nm)intense femtosecond laser field by a DC-sliced ion imaging technique. We obtain the DC-sliced images of these fragment ions S~+, S~(2+), CS~+, and CS~(2+)by breaking one C–S bond, and assign their Coulomb explosion channels by considering their kinetic energy release and angular distribution. We also numerically simulate the dissociation dynamics of parent ions CS_2~(k+)(k = 2–4) by a Coulomb potential approximation, and obtain the time evolution of Coulomb energy and kinetic energy release, which indicates that the dissociation time of parent ions CS_2~(k+) decreases with the increase of the charge number k.These experimental and theoretical results can serve as a useful benchmark for those researchers who work in the related area.     

Ion acceleration regimes in underdense plasmas

Acceleration of large populations of ions up to high (relativistic) energies may represent one of the most important and interesting tools that can be provided by the interaction of petawatt laser pulses with matter. In this paper, the basic mechanisms of ion acceleration by short laser pulses are studied in underdense plasmas. The ion acceleration does not originate directly from the pulse fields, but it is mediated by the electrons in the form of electrostatic fields originating from channeling, double layer formation and Coulomb explosion     

快重离子在固体中引起的电子发射

简要介绍了快重离子与固体相互作用研究的状况和快重离子引起固体电子发射的机制 ,讨论了电子能损导致原子位移的 3种微观模型 ,即“库仑爆炸”模型、“热峰”模型和“激发排斥”模型 ,简述了研究电子发射的实验测量装置和测量方法 ,讨论了总电子发射产额与电子能损的关系以及靶俄歇电子和快传输电子测量在电子激发诱发辐照损伤微观机制研究中的应用 ,并介绍了重离子在 C靶中产生的离子径迹处的电子温度和聚丙稀靶中离子径迹势的提取方法. The recent progresses in experimental and theoretical studies of the collision between swift heavy ion and solids as well as electron emission induced by swift heavy ion in solids were briefly reviewed. Three models, Coulomb explosion, thermal spike and repulsive long lived states, for interpreting the atomic displacements stimulated by the electronic energy loss were discussed. The experimental setup and methods for measuring the electron emission from solids were described ...     

Intense-laser-field ionization of the hydrogen molecular ions H2+ and D2+ at critical internuclear distances

Fragmentation of H2+ and D2+ in ion beams has been studied with short intense laser pulses (100 fs, I=5x10(13)-1x10(15) W/cm2) and by a high-resolution two-dimensional velocity imaging technique. In the Coulomb explosion channel, at intensities just above the threshold for this process, we observe a clear structure in the kinetic energy spectra not previously found or predicted. The peaks can be attributed to single vibrational levels. We interpret this observation as a dissociative allocation of the electron to a proton followed by enhanced ionization at a well-defined "critical" overstretched internuclear distance. When using longer pulses we observe three separate Coulomb explosion velocity groups corresponding to critical distances of about 8, 11, and 15 a.u.     

金属材料中高能重离子辐照效应的理论描述

简要介绍了高能重离子在金属材料中引起辐照效应的主要理论 ,特别是与电子能损引起的缺陷产生与演化、离子潜径迹形成、辐照相变以及各向异性塑性形变等效应相应的理论描述.Experimental results showed that, for high energy heavy ion irradiations, electronic energy loss could play a dominant role in damage process in solid materials. In order to explain the experimental phenomena and results, a series of theoretical models based on Coulomb explosion or thermal spike mechanisms have been proposed. In the present paper, more attention was paid to theoretical expressions of high energy heavy ion irradiation induced effects in metallic materials ...     

Analytical models of laser-trigged ion acceleration

We review the recent advances in constructing analytical solutions of self-consistent Vlasov-Poisson equations in plasma. These solutions describe different physical phenomena, such as the ion acceleration in the adiabatic expansion of a plasma bunch and the Coulomb explosion of cluster plasma. The particle distribution function, mean velocity, and density distribution, as well as the energy spectra for accelerated ions, are discussed.     

尾流效应对快速双原子分子离子在固体中电荷态及分子轴取向的影响

研究了快速双原子分子离子在固体中穿行时,尾流效应对各离子电荷态以及库仑爆炸过程的影响.借助于线性介电响应理论和局域介电函数,离子之间的动力学相互作用势可以表示成对称的屏蔽库仑势和非对称的尾势.通过对分子离子上所有束缚电子的总能量进行变分和求解单个离子的运动方程,自洽地确定出分子离子中每个离子的电荷态.数值结果表明,由于尾流效应的影响,在初始穿行阶段,分子离子中导航离子的电荷数随穿行深度的增加而单调递增,而尾随离子的电荷数则随穿行深度的增加而振荡.但当穿行深度很大时,两个离子的电荷数都趋于具有相同速度的孤立离子的电荷数.此外,还发现分子轴的取向朝入射速度方向偏转