飞秒强激光脉冲中氩团簇库仑爆炸特性研究

利用Bathe模型,理论模拟了氩团簇在飞秒强激光中(100 fs, 1016 W/cm2)的电离和爆炸过程.研究结果显示,在团簇尺寸较小时,离子平均能量与团簇初始半径平方成正比,爆炸机制为典型的库仑爆炸.随着团簇尺寸的增加,能量增加的速度趋缓并在一定团簇尺寸后趋于饱和.模拟结果与实验数据有较好的吻合.     

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     

飞秒强激光场中异核团簇的爆炸动力学

 利用Bathe过势垒模型,对飞秒强激光场中异核分子团簇((CH₄)_n,(CD₄)_n,(D₂O)n）的爆炸动力学过程进行了理论研究。结果表明:异核团簇爆炸后产生的离子能量与团簇初始半径的平方呈线性关系,爆炸机理为典型的库仑爆炸。研究发现,异核分子团簇发生库仑爆炸后的氘离子能量高于飞秒强激光和单核的(D)>)_n团簇相互作用后产生的氘离子能量,显示异核团簇中高Z元素电离后产生的高价离子对低Z元素离子有很强的加速作用。     

飞秒强激光场中氢原子团簇的各向异性膨胀

利用LAMMPS程序研究了氢原子团簇在飞秒强激光场下的动力学行为, 讨论了引起小氢原子团簇各向异性膨胀的原因.通过对外电离过程中团簇内部电子的行为以及团簇各个方向上最外层质子距离团簇中心的距离随时间的变化情况的分析, 发现团簇的膨胀呈现各向异性,且引起这种各向异性的根源在于团簇内部电子的抖动以及逃逸.对氢原子团簇与强激光场相互作用过程中质子各能量分量以及各向异性程度随时间变化情况进行了研究,发现各向异性程度是随时间变化的, 这种各向异性程度首先随着激光电场的增强而增加,随后又逐渐减小,直到最后趋于某一大于1的稳定值.分析了激光脉冲结束后质子的平均能量与观测角之间的关系, 并将分析结果与Ditmire小组的实验结果进行了比较,发现我们的模拟结果在定性上与实验相符合.     

飞秒强激光能量在Ar原子团簇中的沉积

飞秒强激光与团簇的相互作用是一个十分活跃的研究领域, 本文采用一种新的理论模型, 研究了飞秒激光在团簇中的传输的过程, 计算了Ar原子团簇对超强激光能量的吸收, 并通过解析计算连续曲折射程、最大穿透深度和特征时间三个重要的物理参量来重新估算了这一模型的可行性.     

飞秒强激光能量在Ar原子团簇中的沉积

飞秒强激光与团簇的相互作用是一个十分活跃的研究领域,本文采用一种新的理论模型,研究了飞秒激光在团簇中的传输的过程,计算了Ar原子团簇对超强激光能量的吸收,并通过解析计算连续曲折射程、最大穿透深度和特征时间三个重要的物理参量来重新估算了这一模型的可行性.     

飞秒强激光经氩气和氩团簇的传播

通过数值求解三维电场传播方程,理论模拟了飞秒强激光脉冲（50 fs,1016 w/cm2）在氩气和中等尺寸氩团簇中的传播效应.结果表明,飞秒强激光脉冲经氩气传播将发生频谱蓝移展宽和光束发散;而经中等尺寸氩团簇传播,则存在一定程度的自聚焦效应.     

超短超强激光及微团簇与大尺度团簇相互作用

用2.5 MV静电加器提供的高品质微团簇束与固体、气体和大尺度团簇(100->1000原子/团簇)碰撞,超强飞秒激光与大尺度氘团簇相互作用,研究微团簇在大尺度团簇中的库仑爆炸特性,研究超短超强激光场中大尺度氘团簇的聚变机理.本文将介绍此项实验研究的进展.     

飞秒强激光作用下Ar原子团簇离子能谱计算

研究了飞秒强激光与Ar原子团簇相互作用时的电离机制及库仑爆炸过程,建立了一个简化的模型计算相互作用产生的离子能谱,计算结果与实验结果较为吻合,可以较好地解释离子能谱高能端的主要特征。     

氢团簇在飞秒强激光场中的动力学行为

利用分子动力学方法研究了氢团簇在飞秒强激光场中的动力学行为. 与库仑爆炸模型所预言的不同, 团簇的膨胀是各向异性的, 质子平均动能沿激光场极化方向上的分量要明显大于垂直于激光场极化方向上的分量. 讨论了团簇各向异性膨胀产生的原因, 分析了激光和团簇参数对各向异性程度的影响.     

Interaction of intense laser pulses with hydrogen atomic clusters

The interaction between intense femtosecond laser pulses and hydrogen atomic clusters is studied by a simplified Coulomb explosion model. The dependences of average proton kinetic energy on cluster size, pulse duration, laser intensity and wavelength are studied respectively. The calculated results indicate that the irradiation of a femtosecond laser of longer wavelength on hydrogen atomic clusters may be a simple, economical way to produce highly kinetic hydrogen ions. The phenomenon suggests that the irradiation of femtosecond laser of longer wavelength on deuterium atomic clusters may be easier than that of shorter wavelength to drive nuclear fusion reactions. The product of the laser intensity and the squared laser wavelength needed to make proton energy saturated as a function of the squared cluster radius is also investigated. The proton energy distribution calculated is also shown and compared with the experimental data. Our results are in agreement with the experimental results fairly well.     

Dynamics simulation on interaction of intense laser pulses with atomic clusters

Under classical particle dynamics, the interaction process between intense femtosecond laser pulses and icosahedral noble-gas atomic clusters was studied. Our calculated results show that ionization proceeds mainly through tunnel ionization in the combined field from ions, electrons and laser, rather than the electron-impact ionization. With increasing cluster size, the average and maximum kinetic energy of the product ion increases. According to our calculation, the expansion process of the clusters after laser irradiation is dominated by Coulomb explosion and the expansion scale increases with increasing cluster size. The dependence of average kinetic energy and average charge state of the product ions on laser wavelength is also presented and discussed. The dependence of average kinetic energy on the number of atoms inside the cluster was studied and compared with the experimental data. Our results agree with the experimental results reasonably well.     

Study on the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with nanometre-sized hydrogen clusters

The interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with hydrogen clusters has been experimentally studied. The hydrogen clusters were produced from expansion of high-pressure hydrogen gas (backed up to 8\tm10⁶Pa) into vacuum through a conical nozzle cryogenically cooled by liquid nitrogen. The average size of hydrogen clusters was estimated by Rayleigh scattering measurement and the maximum proton energy of up to 4.2keV has been obtained from the Coulomb explosion of hydrogen clusters under 2×10¹⁶ W/cm² laser irradiation. Dependence of the maximum proton energy on cluster size and laser intensity was investigated, indicating the correlation between the laser intensity and the cluster size. The maximum proton energy is found to be directly proportional to the laser intensity, which is consistent with the theoretical prediction.     

Three-dimensional simulation on explosions of hydrogen atomic clusters irradiated by an intense femtosecond laser pulse

Using classic particle dynamics simulations, the interaction process between an intense femtosecond laser pulse and icosahedral hydrogen atomic clusters H_{13}, H_{55} and H_{147} has been studied. It is revealed that with increasing number of atoms in the cluster, the kinetic energy of ions generated in the Coulomb explosion of the ionized hydrogen clusters increases. The expansion process of the clusters after laser irradiation has also been examined, showing that the expansion scale decreases with increasing cluster size.     

Nuclear fusion from Coulomb explosions of deuterated methane clusters subjected to ultraintense femtosecond laser pulses

This paper reports that Coulomb explosions taken place in the experiment of heteronuclear deuterated methane clusters ((CD₄)₂) in a gas jet subjected to intense femtosecond laser pulses (170mJ, 70fs) have led to table-top laser driven DD nuclear fusion. The clusters produced in supersonic expansion had an average size of about 5nm in radius and the laser intensity used was 3×10¹⁷W/cm².The measured maximum and average energies of deuterons produced in the laser--cluster interaction were 60 and 13.5keV, respectively. From DD collisions of energetic deuterons, a yield of 2.5(±0.4)×10⁴ fusion neutrons of 2.45MeV per shot was realized, giving rise to a neutron production efficiency of about 1.5×10⁵ per joule of incident laser pulse energy. Theoretical calculations were performed and a fairly good agreement of the calculated neutron yield with that obtained from the present experiment was found.     

High-intensity femtosecond laser absorption by rare-gas clusters

The energy absorption efficiency of high-intensity (～10^{16}W/cm^2) femtosecond laser pulses in a dense jet of large rare-gas clusters has been measured. Experimental results show that the energy absorption efficiency is strongly dependent on the cluster size and can be higher than 90%. The measurement of the ion energy indicates that the average ion energies of argon and xenon can be as high as 90 and 100keV, respectively. The dependence of the average energy of the ions on the cluster size is also measured. At comparatively low gas backing pressure, the average ion energies of argon and xenon increase with increasing gas backing pressure. The average ion energy of argon becomes saturated gradually with further increase of the gas backing pressure. For xenon, the average ion energy drops a little after the gas backing pressure exceeds 9 bar (3.2×10^5 atoms/cluster). The result showing the existence of a maximum average ion energy has been interpreted within the framework of the microplasma sphere model.     

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.