Particle Simulation of Relativistic Laser Pulse Density Channeling

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Particle Simulation of Relativistic Laser Pulse Density Channeling

Two-dimensional particle simulation is carried out to study the interaction between a high-intensity finite-size spot laser beam and a plasma with linear density profile. The laser is allowed to propagate in underdense corona until it is cut off near the critical surface. The intense laser can drive various instabilities through particle collective motion and result in electron heating,while relativistic effect and ponderomotive force can bring strong energy absorption and electron heating in the overdense region. As the laser beam is nonuniform in the transverse direction,a density channel forms and hole boring effect occurs as a result of strong ponderomotive force pushing particle outwards. These processes can be investigated well by particle simulation.     

非线性两能级系统中的Landau-Zener-Coulomb跃迁

非线性跃迁动力学的研究是量子操控中的一个重要课题,在原子分子光物理、量子信息以及固体物理等领域都有着重要的应用.本文研究了具有粒子间相互作用两能级系统中的Landau-Zener-Coulomb跃迁动力学.结果表明,对于能级的斜率正负不同的情况,粒子间相互作用对系统跃迁动力学的影响完全不同.为正时,粒子间相互作用总是抑制能级间的非绝热跃迁,且相互作用强度越大,两能级间的非绝热跃迁越难发生.而为负时,弱相互作用会促进能级间的非绝热跃迁,在强相互作用情况下,跃迁概率会出现振荡.随着相互作用强度的增大,振荡幅度逐渐减小,能级间的非绝热跃迁受到抑制.     

Ponderomotive nongradient force acting on a relativistic particle crossing an inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave

The ponderomotive force acting on a relativistic charged particle crossing an inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave is investigated numerically and analytically. The initial velocity of the particle is perpendicular to the electric field vector of the wave and to the direction of its propagation. The wave has zero gradient in the direction of propagation and is inhomogeneous in both transverse directions. It is shown that the ponderomotive force acting on the particle is parallel to the wave vector. The magnitude of the force is determined not only by the extent of wave inhomogeneity in the direction of the translational motion of particle, but also by its inhomogeneity in the transverse direction. It is found that the trajectory of a particle is determined by the action of ponderomotive forces as well as by its drift in a nonuniform field.     

Electron, positron, and photon wakefield acceleration: trapping, wake overtaking, and ponderomotive acceleration

The electron, positron, and photon acceleration in the first cycle of a laser-driven wakefield is investigated. Separatrices between different types of the particle motion (trapped, reflected by the wakefield and ponderomotive potential, and transient) are demonstrated. The ponderomotive acceleration of electrons can be largely compensated by the wakefield action, in contrast to positrons and positively charged mesons. The electron bunch energy spectrum is analyzed. The maximum upshift of an electromagnetic wave frequency during reflection from the wakefield is obtained.     

The Ponderomotive Force on a Charge q,Moving in an Electromagnetic Field

Equations of motion of a single charged particle are derived to second order in E where E is an electromagnetic field. By averaging over the wave-period we find the ponderomotive force on the particle. This force may lead to a transport of matter as is also the case in ordinary hydrodynamics. There the effect is called acoustic streaming. We also suggest that the well-known Landau damping may be considered as beeing due to a ponderomotive force.     

Relativistic Derivation of the Ponderomotive Force Produced by Two Intense Laser Fields

The ponderomotive force plays a fundamental role in the absorption of laser light on self-consistent plasma density profiles, in multiple-photon ionization, and in intense field electrodynamics. The relativistic corrections to the ponderomotive force of a transversely polarized electromagnetic wave lead to an approximately 20-percent reduction in the single particle ponderomotive force produced by a 10-?m 1016-W/cm2 laser field. Recent experimental investigations are based on using two intense laser fields to produce desired laser-matter interactions. This paper presents the first derivation of the nonlinear relativistic ponderomotive force produced by two intense laser fields. The results demonstrate that relativistic ponderomotive forces are not additive.     

Equilibrium profiles for RF-plasma sources with ponderomotiveforces

An analysis is given of the influence of the electron ponderomotive force on the equilibrium plasma profiles of partially ionized, radio frequency discharge sources, The ponderomotive force can be written as a gradient of a potential varying with the square of the RF field in the plasma and is largest for electrons, The impact of this electron ponderomotive force on density and electrostatic potential profiles is demonstrated using a one-dimensional analytic model with supporting numerical solutions and a two dimensional fluid simulation. For nearly collisionless plasmas the ponderomotive force is valid when ω_ce^h/ω<1 where ω_ce ^h is the electron cyclotron frequency due to the RF magnetic field and ω is the RF driving frequency, In processing plasmas with parameters that satisfy this validity criteria, the equilibrium density profiles are weakly modified, For nearly collisionless processing plasmas with parameters such that ω_ce^h /ω>1, the ponderomotive force, is modified by other nonlinear force terms that need to be evaluated     

Scattering of relativistic electrons by a focused laser pulse

The problem of the motion of a classical relativistic electron in a focused high-intensity laser pulse is solved. A new three-dimensional model of the electromagnetic field, which is an exact solution of Maxwell’s equations, is proposed to describe a stationary laser beam. An extension of the model is proposed. This extension describes a laser pulse of finite duration and is an approximate solution of Maxwell’s equations. The equations for the average motion of an electron in the field of a laser pulse, described by our model, are derived assuming weak spatial and temporal nonuniformities of the field. It is shown that, to a first approximation in the parameters of the nonuniformities, the average (ponderomotive) force acting on a particle is described by the gradient of the ponderomotive potential, but it loses its potential character even in second order. It is found that the three-dimensional ponderomotive potential is asymmetric. The trajectories of relativistic electrons moving in a laser field are obtained and the cross sections for scattering of electrons by a stationary laser beam are calculated. It is shown that reflection of electrons from the laser pulse and the surfing effect are present in the model studied. It is found that for certain impact parameters of the incident electrons the asymmetic ponderomotive potential can manifest itself effectively as an attractive potential. It is also shown that even in the case of a symmetric potential the scattering cross section contains singularities, known as rainbow scattering. The results are applicable for fields characterized by large (compared to 1) values of the dimensionless parameter η² = e ²〈E ²〉/m ²ω² and arbitrary electron energies.     

The Effect of High Spatial Harmonics in RF Linac

The effect of high spatial harmonics on beam dynamics in a axisymmetric radio frequency linear accelerator (RF linac) is examined. The high spatial harmonics forms the second order ponderomotive focusing for the relativistical particle beam when the transverse motion is averaged over the period of RF structure, the beam transverse envelop equation is obtained including the ponderomotive focusing force which is useful for the design of RF gun and linac. Under a certain of high spatial harmonics coefficients, the high spatial harmonics increase the energy spread due to the stochasitical beam energy diffusion.     

Ponderomotive Force Effects due to a Circularly Polarized Electromagnetic Wave

The modifications in the time-averaged plasma particle distribution functions in the presence of a large amplitude electromagnetic wave are studied. It is shown that the ponderomotive force is responsible for tail formation, non-zero particle currents and heat fluxes. Explicit results, which describe those effects, are derived.     

Impact of nonlinear absorption on propagation of microwave in a plasma filled rectangular waveguide

In collisional and ponderomotive predominant regimes, the propagation of microwave in rectangular waveguide filled with collisional plasma is investigated numerically. The dominant mode is excited through an evacuated waveguide and then enters a similar and co-axis waveguide filled with plasma. In collisional predominant regime, the amplitude of electric field is oscillated along propagation path; outset of propagation path due to the electron-ion collision, the intensity oscillations are reduced. Afterward, under competition between the collisional nonlinearity and absorption, the intensity is increased, so the electron density peak is created in middle of waveguide. In ponderomotive predominant regime, the intensity is slowly decreased due to collision, so the electron density is ramped. Control parameters, like the frequency, input power, collision frequency, and background electron density are surveyed that can be used to control propagation characteristics of microwave. This method can be used to control heating of fusion plasma and accelerate charged particle.     

Quantumlike dynamics of classical particles in ponderomotive potentials

The average dynamics of a classical particle under the action of a high-frequency radiation resembles quantum particle motion in a conservative field with an effective de Broglie wavelength lambda equal to the particle average displacement on the oscillation period. In a quasiclassical field, with a spatial scale large compared to lambda, the guiding-center motion is adiabatic. Otherwise, a particle exhibits quantized eigenstates in ponderomotive potential wells, tunnels through "classically forbidden" regions, and experiences stochastic reflection from attractive potentials.     

等离子体通道中的自生磁场

研究了超短脉冲强激光在等离子体通道中传播时产生的自生磁场．利用相对论动量方程和泊松方程及安培定律得出自生磁场的一个基本公式，在此基础上解析并数值研究了通道中产生的自生磁场的特性和结构，初步探讨了超短脉冲强激光在等离子体中传播时形成的排空效应对自生磁场的影响，并分析了产生自生磁场的机制 关键词：     

Coupling surface plasmon waves across gaps in a dielectric/metal interface by transformation optics

Propagation of a Gaussian laser beam in a plasma is analyzed by including the nonlinearity associated with the relativistic mass and the ponderomotive force. We set up the nonlinear differential equation for beam width parameter using parabolic equation approach and solve it numerically. Our results show that the ponderomotive self-focusing contributes in the relativistic self-focusing of the laser beam. An impact of plasma electron temperature, relative density parameter, and intensity parameter on the propagation of the laser beam has been explored.     

Particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in supernova shells: A nonlinear Monte Carlo model

A nonlinear model of particle spectra and nonadiabatic magnetic field amplification in supernova shells is presented. The effect super-diffusive particle propagation in the vicinity of a shock wave has on the spectra of accelerated particles and magnetic field fluctuations is studied in a Monte Carlo simulation.     

Drift Lagrangian for a relativistic particle in an intense laser field

The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions describing the average motion of a relativistic particle under the action of a slightly inhomogeneous intense laser field are obtained. In weak low-frequency background fields, such a particle on average drifts with an effective relativistically invariant mass, which depends on the laser intensity. The essence of the proposed ponderomotive formulation is presented in a physically intuitive and mathematically simple form yet represents a powerful tool for studying various nonlinear phenomena caused by the interaction of currently available smooth ultraintense laser pulses with plasmas.     

低密等离子体通道中的非共振激光直接加速

在低密等离子体通道中, 横向有质动力可以有效调制电子的横向振荡过程. 一方面, 横向有质动力可以向外推动电子, 增大电子横向振荡振幅, 减小失相率, 使电子获得能量增益; 另一方面, 横向有质动力也可以通过对失相率的非线性调制来降低失相率, 在电子横向振荡振幅很小的情况下导致激光直接加速. 横向有质动力调制的大小由等离子体密度、激光强度和束宽共同决定. 三维模型结果也证实可以通过参数放大实现激光直接加速, 弥补了准二维模型的局限性.     

Relativistic ponderomotive forces in the field of intense laser radiation

The motion of a relativistic charged particle in the presence of the field of high-power laser radiation represented in the form of a Gaussian beam of arbitrary mode is analyzed. The vector potential of the radiation field is expanded in terms of a small parameter (the ratio of the wavelength to the Gaussian beam waist). A specific feature of averaging with respect to the phases of the high-mode Gaussian beams is demonstrated. The averaged equations for the motion of particle and a general expression for the ponderomotive relativistic force for the circularly polarized radiation are derived. It is demonstrated that relativistic effects suppress the averaged action of high-power laser radiation on the particle.