强激光场中氢负离子双光子电离能量谱的研究

利用强场近似（Strong field approximation,SFA）方法研究氢负离子（H ）在强激光场中双光子电离的能量谱,所得到的电离谱随角度的变化规律与实验结果符合得很好.进一步的研究表明, H 离子在强激光场中双光子电离的能量谱与有质动力能有关.激光场强度越大,光电子的有质动力能也越大,能量谱向左移动越明显.我们的结果表明,使用强场近似是一种研究负离子在强激光场中电离过程的有效方法.     

强激光场中氢负离子双光子电离能量谱的研究

利用强场近似(Strong field approximation,SFA)方法研究氢负离子(H-)在强激光场中双光子电离的能量谱,所得到的电离谱随角度的变化规律与实验结果符合得很好.进一步的研究表明,H-离子在强激光场中双光子电离的能量谱与有质动力能有关.激光场强度越大,光电子的有质动力能也越大,能量谱向左移动越明显...     

质谱在激光等离子体物理研究中的应用

在对激光等离子体相互作用的研究中,物质由于在激光场的作用下离子化而成各种离化态的离子,研究这些离子的特性可以深入理解激光与等离子体相互作用过程,质谱仪能提供离子的最高离化态、平均电荷态、能量分布和丰度等重度信息,文章介绍了质谱仪的原理及的原理及其在激光等离子体中的应用。     

Ion implantation induced by Cu ablation at high laser fluence

High energy laser plasma-produced Cu ions have been implanted in silicon substrates placed at different distances and angles with respect to the normal to the surface of the ablated target. The implanted samples have been produced using the iodine high power Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS) using 438 nm wavelength irradiating in vacuum a Cu target. The high laser pulse energy (up to 230 J) and the short pulse duration (400 ps) produced a non-equilibrium plasma expanding mainly along the normal to the Cu target surface. Time-of-flight (TOF) technique was employed, through an electrostatic ion energy analyzer (IEA) placed along the target normal, in order to measure the ion energy, the ion charge state, the energy distribution and the charge state distribution. Ions had a Boltzmann energy distributions with an energy increasing with the charge state. At a laser fluence of the order of 6 × 10⁶ J/cm², the maximum ion energy was about 600 keV and the maximum charge state was about 27+.In order to investigate the implantation processes, Cu depth profiles have been performed with Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) of 1.5 MeV helium ions, Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) with 3 keV electron beam and 1 keV Ar sputtering ions in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Surface analysis results indicate that Cu ions are implanted within the first surface layers and that the ion penetration ranges are in agreement with the ion energy measured with IEA analysis.     

Laser desorption of energetic sodium ions from single-crystal NaNO3 at 1064 nm

We report electron and Na⁺ ion emission from single-crystal sodium nitrate (~10 eV band gap) upon exposure to IR (1064 nm, 1.16 eV) laser radiation. The fluence dependence of both the ion and the electron yield is highly nonlinear, and the kinetic energies of the emitted ions can reach values up to 5 eV. The fluence dependence and the ion energy distributions can be understood by a previously presented model involving multiple photon charge transfer plus electrostatic ejection of adions siting atop electron traps. Further evidence for the role of defects in the observed ion emission are provided by two-beam experiments; one beam (UV laser) is used to generate defects and the second beam (IR laser) is used to photodesorb the ions. Such experiments demonstrate that exposure of the sodium nitrate surfaces to UV laser radiation significantly increases the ion emission due to IR laser radiation.     

Temperature and density spectroscopic measurements in different laser-generated plasmas

A pulsed Nd:Yag laser, at intensities of the order of 10¹⁰ W/cm², is employed to irradiate different thick metallic targets (Ti, Fe, Ag, and Ni) placed in vacuum. The obtained non-equilibrium plasmas are investigated with various analytical techniques. An electrostatic ion energy analyzer and different ion collectors are employed to monitor in situ the ions ejected from the plasma and to determine the core plasma temperature, the ion energy distributions and the ion angular emission. An optical spectrometer is employed to analyze the plasma corona emitted light vs. wavelength and to identify the emitted characteristic lines. The optical spectroscopy permitted to evaluate the electron temperatures and densities. Results show strong temperature and density gradients occurring in the laser-generated plasma plume.     

超强激光与固体气体复合靶作用产生高能氦离子

激光氦离子源产生的MeV能量的氦离子因有望用于聚变反应堆材料辐照损伤的模拟研究而得到关注.目前激光驱动氦离子源的主要方案是采用相对论激光与氦气射流作用加速高能氦离子,但这种方案在实验上难以产生具有前向性和准单能性、数MeV能量、高产额的氦离子束,而这些氦离子束特性是材料辐照损伤研究中十分关注的.不同于上述激光氦离子产生方法,我们提出了一种利用超强激光与固体-气体复合靶作用产生氦离子的新方法.利用这种方法,在实验上,采用功率密度5×10~(18)W/cm~2的皮秒脉宽的激光脉冲与铜-氦气复合靶作用,产生了前向发射的2.7 MeV的准单能氦离子束,能量超过0.5 MeV的氦离子产额约为10~(13)/sr.二维粒子模拟显示,氦离子在靶背鞘场加速和类无碰撞冲击波加速两种加速机理共同作用下得到加速.同时粒子模拟还显示氦离子截止能量与超热电子温度成正比.     

Evidence of post field ionization and observation of novel features in the energy distribution of field evaporated ions

Ion energy distributions in low temperature field evaporation obtained by pulsed-laser time-of-flight atom-probe, in general, show a FWHM of the spatial zone of ion formation to be 0.3–0.5 Å; post field ionization is not responsible for the ion formation. However, when ions of two or more charge states coexist a low energy tail can be found for the higher charge state ions, similar to those found for gas ions in field ionization. This tail can extend as far as 10 Å above the surface. Ions in the tail can only be produced by post field ionization. Double peak structures are found in the energy distributions of some ion species such as Mo²⁺; the origin of which is not yet understood. At a constant rate of field evaporation, as the field is gradually reduced by continued field evaporation and the laser power density appropriately increased, the charge states shift to the lower ones. For Mo, however, Mo²⁺₂ ions are formed before Mo⁺ ions can be detected. The narrowness of the energy distributions shows that they are stable. This finding has an important implication to the study of the stability or Coulomb explosion of multiple charged cluster ions, and also the theory of field evaporation. Under intense laser irradiation, higher charge state ions can reappear and a large fraction of ions may have an excess energy of a few hundred eV. These may be produced by multiphoton ionization and also by interaction with the over-heated electrons in laser-solid interactions.     

The generation of fast particles in plasmas created by laser pulses with different wavelengths

By means of spatially resolved high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy, we have investigated the generation of fast ions at various laser installations with different flux densities and laser wavelengths. It is demonstrated that the fast ion generation in laser-produced plasma can be achieved for a very low level of the averaged laser intensity on the target. The time-of-flight mass spectrometry ion diagnostics and X-ray spectrographs give very close results for the energy distribution of the thermal ion component. For higher energies, however, we found significant differences: the spatially resolved high-resolution spectrographs expose the presence of suprathermal ions, while the time-of-flight method does not. Suprathermal ion energies E _ion plotted as a function of the qλ² parameter show a large scatter far above the experimental errors. The cause of these large scatters is attributed to a strong nonuniformity of the laser intensity distribution in the focal spot. The analysis by means of hydrodynamics and spectral simulations show that the X-ray emission spectrum is a complex convolution from different parts of the plasma with strongly different electron density and temperature. It is shown that the highly resolved Li-like satellite spectrum near Heαcontains significant distortions even for very low hot electron fractions. Non-Maxwellian spectroscopy allows determination of both the hot electron fraction and the bulk electron temperature.     

Anisotropic explosions of hydrogen clusters under intense femtosecond laser irradiation

We report on measurements of ion energy distributions from hydrogen clusters irradiated by intense laser pulses of duration 40 and 250 fs. Contrary to the predictions of a simple Coulomb explosion model, we observe a pronounced spatial anisotropy of the ion energies from these explosions with the highest energy ions ejected along the laser polarization direction. The origin of the anisotropy is distinct from that previously seen in clusters of high Z atoms such as Ar and Xe. Furthermore, a measured increase in H+ ion energy when longer, lower intensity pulses are employed suggests that multiple-pass, vacuum heating of the cluster electrons is important in the deposition of energy by the laser.     

紫外激光作用下环氧乙烷的TOF质谱研究

本文采用超声分子束技术,分别在308nm和355nm的紫外激光下,对环氧乙烷分子进行了多光子电离飞行时间(TOF)质谱研究.在308nm激光作用时,观测到C_2H_4O~+、C_2H_3O_+、CHO~+和CH_3~+等离子的信号;在355nm激光作用时,则没有观测到分子离子的信号.在两种激光作用下最强的信号都是CHO~+.但是两种激光下各碎片离子信号的光强指数有一定差别,表明在两种情形下,环氧乙烷分子经历了不同的电离解离过程.     

Distributions of ions in a cluster plasma created by a laser pulse

Energy and charge distributions of ions are calculated for a cluster beam irradiated by a high-power ultrashort laser pulse. It is shown that the self-consistent field of a cluster ionized by the laser beam strongly affects the characteristics of the ion distributions obtained after the cluster explodes. The mean concentration of atoms bound into clusters in a beam, the cluster size distribution, and the focal-spot diameter are found to have a weak effect on both energy and charge distributions of the ions, whereas the energy spectrum of the produced ions is determined by the mean cluster size.     

Mathematical modeling of the heating of a fast ignition target by an ion beam

We develop a BIN computer code for simulating the interaction of a monochromatic ion beam with a plasma, which takes into account changes in the spatial distribution of the heated-plasma temperature. This enables us to calculate the heating of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasmas with parameters corresponding to their real spatial distributions at the time of maximum compression of the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) target. We present the results of a numerical simulation using the BIN code for the heating of a homogeneous deuterium–tritium plasma by a short pulse of monochromatic ions at various ion velocity and plasma–electron thermal velocity ratios. We also present the results of calculations for the heating of an inhomogeneous plasma of a non-cryogenic target formed as a beryllium deuteride–tritide shell by beams of light, medium, and heavy ions. As the initial distributions, we use the results of numerical simulations for such a target, precompressed by a laser pulse (carried out at the M. V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics using the DIANA code). We demonstrate the possibility of forming the central ignitor with the parameters sufficient for igniting the targets by beams of ions with energies E ~ 100 ? 400 MeV/u and specific energy densities of the beam Q ～ 5?20 GJ/cm². The required specific energy density drops with increase in the ion energy; however, due to the increased path length, larger-charge ions have to be used.     

气体放电空心阴极鞘层氩离子的蒙特-卡罗模拟研究

建立了气体放电空心圆筒阴极鞘层离子的自洽蒙特-卡罗模拟模型,对鞘层区内离子的输运过程进行了研究。考虑了离子与中性原子的电荷交换碰撞和弹性散射,用到了精确依赖于离子能量的电荷交换和动量输运截面。模拟了氩离子在空心阴极鞘层中的运动,得到了不同放电条件下自洽电场分布,离子的能量分布,角分布以及电子密度分布和离子密度分布。计算结果表明:离子在由鞘层边界向阴极运动过程中,离子能量分布的高能部分逐渐增大,角分布向小角度部分压缩,鞘层中的强电场对离子起加速和聚焦作用;在鞘层内离子密度分布比较均匀,只是在鞘层边界附近变化 关键词：     

Ne原子(e,2e)反应中反冲离子动量分析

利用冷靶反冲离子动量谱仪,对电子轰击Ne原子的单电离反应(e,2e)进行了研究,实验测量了70—3300eV入射能量情况下,反应过程中产生的一价反冲离子的动量分布,并对反冲离子的总动量进行了还原。介绍了一个简单的碰撞机制,据此着重分析了反冲离子纵向动量和横向动量二维谱形成的原因,该碰撞机制能够较好地解释较高能量入射时的实验结果。最后根据反冲离子的动量,估算了出射电子的能量范围,为下一步进行电子、离子的符合测量奠定了基础。     

Temperature measurements in plasmas generated by using lasers at different intensities

The temperature of laser-generated pulsed plasmas is an important property that depends on many parameters, such as the particle species and the time elapsed from the laser interaction with the matter and the surface characteristics.

Laser-generated plasmas with low intensity (<10¹⁰ W/cm²) at INFN-LNS of Catania and with high intensity (>10¹⁴ W/cm²) in PALS laboratory in Prague have been investigated in terms of temperatures relative to ions, electrons, and neutral species. Time-of-flight (ToF) measurements have been performed with an electrostatic ion energy analyzer (IEA) and with different Faraday cups, in order to measure the ion and electron average velocities. The IEA was also used to measure the ion energy, the ion charge state, and the ion energy distribution.

The Maxwell–Boltzmann function permitted to fit the experimental data and to extrapolate the ion temperature of the plasma core.

The velocity of the neutrals was measured with a special mass quadrupole spectrometer. The Nd:Yag laser operating at low intensity produced an ion temperature core of the order of 400 eV and a neutral temperature of the order of 100 eV for many ablated materials. The ToF of electrons indicates the presence of hot electron emission with an energy of ～1 keV.     

The energy dependence and depth distribution of lattice disorder in ion-implanted silicon

Silicon single crystals were implanted at room temperature with Xe and I ions in the energy range 20 to 150 keV and with 20 to 50 keV P ions. The lattice disorder induced by these implants was measured by a combination of the channeling and Rutherford backscattering techniques. The disorder produced by implanting I and Xe ions exhibited a similar relationship with implantation energy to that previously established for bismuth implants. The P ion implants induced less lattice disorder per incident ion in the energy range studied. Integral depth distributions of the implanted ions and of the lattice disorder were obtained by combining a layer removal technique with radiotracer implants of 110 keV ¹³³Xe and 40 keV ³²P. The depth distributions showed that in both cases the ions penetrate deeper into the crystal than the damage they produce but that the separation is significantly greater for the P implant than for the Xe implant.     

Hot Ion Production in a Modified Penning Discharge

Ions with Maxwellian energy distributions and kinetic temperatures up to seven keV have been observed in a modified Penning discharge. Investigation of the plasma revealed two distinct spoke-like concentrations of charge, consisting respectively of ions and electrons, rotating with different velocities in the sheath between the plasma and the anode ring. Theoretical expressions are derived for the frequency of the ion and electron spoke rotation, for the ion kinetic temperature resulting from the ion spoke velocity, and for the ion heating efficiency. An extensive series of experimental measurements were made to check these theoretical expressions, and approximate agreement was obtained. It is shown that the ion kinetic temperature in the modified Penning discharge scales according to the relation Vi ~ Vani1/4/B1/2 where Va is the applied anode voltage, ni is the ion density in the sheath, and B is the magnetic field strength. The observed data demonstrate that the ion heating efficiency can be as high as several tens of percent.     

Experimental study and computer simulations of the implantation of laser plasma ions in pulsed electric fields

Results are presented from experimental studies of pulsed plasma flows generated by nanosecond laser pulses with an intensity of 7 × 10⁸ W/cm² from a solid-state target in a strong electric field. The current pulses through the laser target and the depth distributions of the iron ions implanted in a silicon substrate to which a negative high-voltage pulse was applied are measured. The physical processes occurring in laser plasma with an initial iron ion density of 6 × 10¹⁰ cm⁻³ are simulated numerically by the particle-in-cell method for different delay times and different shapes of the accelerating high-voltage pulse. The model developed allows one to calculate the ion flows onto the processed substrate, the electron flows onto the target, and the energy spectra of the implanted ions. The results from computer simulations are found to be in good agreement the experimental data.     

Energy analysis of protons emitted from Nd:YAg laser-generated plasmas

Hydrogenated targets have been irradiated in vacuum with the pulsed Nd:YAg laser at intensities of the order of 10¹⁰ W/cm². The laser-generated plasma, produced by the interaction with the solid, emits protons and other ions along the normal to the target surface. Ion collectors and ion energy analyzer were used to measure the current, the angular emission and the energy distributions of the emitted protons. Time-of-flight measurements, Coulomb–Boltzmann-distributions and the fits of experimental data were also used in order to evaluate the equivalent ion plasma temperature and the ion acceleration developed in the non-equilibrium-pulsed plasma.