微波大气击穿阈值的理论研究

本文通过对使用有效场强(或均方根场强)得到的微波大气击穿阈值表达式进行讨论, 指出其推导中所做的假设及这些假设应用到微波大气击穿过程中存在的问题. 然后分别使用解析理论和数值模拟对微波大气击穿过程中的有效电子温度变化过程和击穿阈值进行研究, 并将其与直流电场进行比较. 分析发现在高气压下, 电子能量转移频率高, 有效电子温度随电场大幅振荡, 由于电离频率随有效电子温度的增长率大于电子能量损失随有效电子温度的增长率, 因此在高气压时, 微波大气击穿阈值低于使用有效场强的击穿阈值. 通过大量分析, 给出了理论推导和数值模拟得到的微波大气击穿阈值拟合表达式.     

Physical processes in a laser-greenhouse target: Experimental results, theoretical models, and numerical calculations

The paper is devoted to recent results concerning investigation of physical processes occurring in a “laser greenhouse” target. Results of experimental and theoretical studies of laser-pulse interaction with a low-density absorber of the target, namely, with a porous substance having density close to the plasma critical density, are presented. On the basis of a vast cycle of experiments carried out in a number of laboratories, it is shown that the absorption of the laser radiation in porous media, including those with a density exceeding the critical one by at least a factor of 4 to 6, has a bulk nature and is distributed over the target depth. In particular, the laser-radiation absorption region in a porous substance with density 10⁻³–10⁻² g/cm³ is extended into the target 400–100 μm, respectively. The coefficient of absorption of laser radiation with intensity 10¹⁴–10¹⁵ W/cm² in porous substances, including those of the supercritical density, is 70–90%. Experiments have not shown enhanced (compared to a solid-state target) radiation intensity associated with a possible development of parametric instabilities in an extended laser plasma of low-density porous media, as well as noticeable contribution of fast electrons to the energy balance and their effect on the energy transfer. In this paper, theoretical models are developed explaining features of the laser-radiation absorption and energy transfer in porous media. These models are based on the phenomenon of laser-radiation interaction with solid components of a porous substance and plasma production inside pores and cells of the medium. The efficiency of energy conversion in the vicinity of the ignition threshold for the laser-greenhouse target is investigated in the case of an absorber having the above properties. Numerical calculations have shown that a thermonuclear-gain coefficient of 1 to 2 (with respect to the energy absorbed) is attained for a laser-radiation energy of 100 kJ. Translated from Preprint No. 58 of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (1999).     

High-density operation in tokamaks

Conclusion  In this paper we have examined various aspects regarding high-density operation in tokamaks and in particular the density limit, the plasma detachment, the MARFE formation and the fuelling efficiency. As regarding the density limit, both experimental findings and theoretical model indicate that the plasma current and the total input power are relevant in limiting the edge density that can be sustained in a tokamak discharge: radiation losses and SOL momentum and energy conservation are the underlying mechanisms. In the latest divertor experiments, operating in the detached regime, the influence of the input power seems to vanish or even disappear. Edge phenomena such as plasma detachment, occurring beyond a density threshold that can be lowered by means of impurity injection, can lead to the almost complete exhausting of the heating power by radiation which is greatly helpful for the design of the divertor plates. The compatibility of H-mode operation with this regime is still under investigation. The MARFE phenomenon, sometimes precursor of a major disruption, is now understood in terms of a radiation induced thermal instability. Finally, experiments performed in order to investigate the fuelling efficiency of the gas puffing technique have shown that at high density this technique becomes rather inefficient, thus indicating that pellet injection still remains an essential requirement to fuel the reactor plasma. The drop of the fuelling efficiency of gas-puffing at high density can be accounted for by collision phenomena taking place in the SOL.     

Relationship between the velocity of hypersonic vehicles and the transmission efficiency of radio waves

Analyzing the flow field distributions around a near-space blunt-cone vehicle at different flight speeds, we observe that, when the flight speed exceeds a certain threshold, the relationship between the flow field density and the vehicle speed presents a characteristic opposite to that at the flight condition of the speed lower than the threshold. On this basis, the Runge–Kutta method is applied to solve the ray equations in non-uniform plasma, in which the electron density at any computing point is obtained by the Lagrange interpolation based on the discrete data of the flow field. Then the EM wave attenuation in the sheath is determined by the subsection integral method combining with the electromagnetic theory. The numerical results also show that when the flight velocity is lower than the threshold, the energy transfer efficiency of the EM waves decreases with the increase of the vehicle velocity. However, when the flight speed is greater than the threshold, the energy transfer efficiency increases as the vehicle speed increases. This conclusion will be helpful to further understand the EM wave propagation characteristics for hypersonic vehicles, and to provide a reference for the channel selection of antennas.     

Dynamics of plasma formation during quasicontinuous laser irradiation of metals in high-pressure nitrogen atmospheres

This is a study of target destruction and the dynamics of surface plasma formation during the interaction of quasicontinuous laser radiation (λ = 1.06 μm, q = 1–7 MW/cm², τ ∼ 1.5 msec) with D16T duraluminum and bismuth in nitrogen atmospheres at pressures p = 1–20 atm. High speed photography and spectroscopy of the erosion plasma flare are used to determine the onset time for vaporization of the target, as well as the times of appearance of erosion and nitrogen plasmas for different gas pressures and laser energy fluxes q. The emergence of the plasma front from the vapor zone into the surrounding nitrogen is detected experimentally and the properties of the nitrogen plasma are studied.     

Gepulste UV-Strahlungsquelle zur Erzeugung eines hoch ionisierten Ausgangsplasmas niedriger Dichte

A 100 kV Z-pinch, pulse-filled with high-density xenon gas, is used as radiation source for photoionizing hydrogen or rare gases at filling pressures of 1–10 mtorr. This produces a homogeneous, magnetic field free, highly ionized (degree of ionization ≈10% in H₂ and ≈ 20% in Ar) plasma suitable for example, for collisionless shock wave experiments. Experimental and theoretical investigations have yielded information on the conversion of the stored electrical energy into radiation energy. As a result of fast magnetic compression and ohmic heating (the relatively low temperature of max. 6 eV due to multiple ionization of the xenon atoms being favourable) the xenon pinch absorbs 30% of the stored electrical energy. Investigation of the matching of the external circuit to theZ-pinch by means of the snowplow model shows that the energy transmission efficiency could be increased about 50% if the current half-cycle is made equal to the compression time. The suitability of the xenon pinch as a radiation source is due on the one hand, to the almost complete conversion of the absorbed energy into radiation and, in particular, to the spectral distribution of the radiation, which is favourable for the ionization of hydrogen. It is found that the radiation is mainly emitted in lines with maximum intensity at the same wavelength λ ≈ 700 Å as the maximum of the photoionization cross section owing to the low temperature of the xenon plasma.     

Nonlinear interaction of ultraintense laser pulse with relativistic thin plasma foil in the radiation pressure-dominant regime

We present a study of the effect of laser pulse temporal profile on the energy /momentum acquired by the ions as a result of the ultraintense laser pulse focussed on a thin plasma layer in the radiation pressure-dominant (RPD) regime. In the RPD regime, the plasma foil is pushed by ultraintense laser pulse when the radiation cannot propagate through the foil, while the electron and ion layers move together. The nonlinear character of laser–matter interaction is exhibited in the relativistic frequency shift, and also change in the wave amplitude as the EM wave gets reflected by the relativistically moving thin dense plasma layer. Relativistic effects in a high-energy plasma provide matching conditions that make it possible to exchange very effectively ordered kinetic energy and momentum between the EM fields and the plasma. When matter moves at relativistic velocities, the efficiency of the energy transfer from the radiation to thin plasma foil is more than 30% and in ultrarelativistic case it approaches one. The momentum /energy transfer to the ions is found to depend on the temporal profile of the laser pulse. Our numerical results show that for the same laser and plasma parameters, a Lorentzian pulse can accelerate ions upto 0.2 GeV within 10 fs which is 1.5 times larger than that a Gaussian pulse can.     

Scope of plasma focus with argon as a soft X-ray source

The X-radiation emission from a low energy plasma focus with argon as a filling gas is investigated. Specifically, the attention is paid to determine the system efficiency for argon K-lines and Cu-K/sub /spl alpha// line emission at different filling pressures, and identify the radiation emission region. The highest argon line emission found at 1.5 mbar is about 30 mJ and the corresponding efficiency is 0.0015%. The same pressure is suitable for high Cu-K/sub /spl alpha// emission, which is about 70 mJ in 4/spl pi/ geometry and the system efficiency is 0.003%. The bulk of X-radiation is emitted from the region close to the anode tip, whereas some radiation emission takes place from the formed hot spots along the focus axis. These radiations are found suitable for backlighting in Al (1-1.56 keV) and Ti (2.9-4.96 keV) energy transmission bands.     

基于镍-63硅基辐伏能量转换结构初探

针对辐射伏特效应同位素微电池研究中所面临的主要问题——辐伏转换效率提高与辐射损伤 这一相互制约的矛盾体,利用单晶硅低能电子辐照感生缺陷行为研究,结合两种PIN结构的 电学性能测试,提出I区掺杂浓度为2×10¹² cm^-3的P⁺I (N^-) N⁺器件符合 P, N型硅辐射损伤效应预测结果.并以此为原型器件进行⁶³Ni辐照在线输出特性测试, 通过与Wisconsin大学实验数据比较,对影响能量转换效率低下的主要因素进行了分析, 考虑主要从器件采用三维PIN结结构;增大耗尽层能量沉积比重; I (N^-)区宽度与沉积深度匹配; 控制漏电流在皮安量级等方面提高能量转换效率,据此对硅基能量转换结构进行设计, 最终确定PIN多孔结构、辐射源厚度、掺杂浓度、耗尽层宽度等结构参数,完成换能结构优化.     

Nonlinear radiation analysis in hydrogen plasma

This paper deals with the radiation energy transport within a plasma gas enclosed between two parallel black plates, together with the interaction of radiation and conduction under uniform heat generation. An expression for the radiation heat flux is being obtained in terms of the modified emissivity without resorting to the assumption of linearized radiation previously used. Results for the temperature and radiation heat flux distributions are obtained for various values of heat generation and for different spacings between the plates. The results presented are for hydrogen plasma gas at pressures of 0.43 and 37.5 atm with wall temperatures of 10,000°K. The present results for the centerline temperatures are compared with those utilizing linearized radiation, and it was found that the linearized radiation assumption overestimates the temperature values especially for large heat generations.     

Double Electrical Layer at the Plasma‐Solution Interface

Plasma‐solution interface plays the important role in the systems of the electrical discharges with or in liquids (electrolyte solutions). Processes, which pass at this interface, influence on as plasma as liquid. In this paper, the theoretical and experimental results of studies of the double layer on the liquid surface are presented. Data of cathode region properties, kinetics of nonequilibrium vaporization, correlation between radiation intensity and fluxes from electrolyte cathode surface and energy consumptions per on one water molecule transfer are summarized. It is able to suggest the transfer mechanism at the plasma‐solution interface. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A source of solar protons: The temperature of flare plasma and injection moments

The relationship between injection moments of solar protons of ∼100 MeV in the heliosphere and the temperature of flare plasma in six long events of the 23d cycle is considered. Injection moments are evaluated by the arrival time of first protons to an observer in the ecliptic plane (GOES), and the temperature is assessed by the ratio of X-ray intensities in two energy channels of GOES. The temperature of the flare plasma depends on the efficiency of heating (the spectrum of accelerated electrons and properties of the target) and cooling. Time profiles of gamma radiation and moments of particle injection into the heliosphere in the ecliptic plane indicate that the acceleration of particles with the most rigid spectrum can occur under different physical conditions, i.e., during a temperature increase or decline. The phase of a temperature decline corresponds to the increase in the altitude of the acceleration region (for a coronal source) and a reduction in plasma density. At this time, the intensity of gamma radiation is usually below the threshold of modern detectors.     

Calculation of radiative heat transfer in argon arc plasmas

Radiation emission and absorption in arc plasmas are important energy transfer processes. Exact calculations, though possible in principle, are usually impossible in practice because of the need to treat a large number of spectral lines and also the continuum radiation in the whole spectrum range. Recently, we have used an approximate method of partial characteristics to evaluate the radiation intensities, radiation fluxes and the divergence of radiation fluxes for SF₆ arc plasma with cylindrical symmetry. In this paper, we have extended our calculations toargon arc plasmas for the plasma pressures of 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0 MPa. We have calculated the coefficients of absorption for Ar plasmas at temperatures from 300 to 35 000 K, and have used these coefficients to calculate the partial characteristics. Both the continuum and the line spectra have been included in calculations. We have taken into account the radiative photo-recombination and bremsstrahlung for the continuous spectrum, and over 500 spectral lines for the discrete spectra.The method of partial characteristics has been applied to three-dimensional calculations of radiative heat transfer — i.e. radiation intensity, radiation flux and its divergence — in simplified temperature profiles. Conclusions have been made concerning validity and utilization of the method of partial characteristics in general gas dynamics problems.     

Explosive plasma-vortex optical radiation sources

The results of experimental study of explosive radiation sources based on pulsed injection of a cumulative plasma jet into atmospheric air are considered. The injection process is accompanied with intense vortex formation as well as the formation of a large-scale toroidal plasma vortex. High-power electromagnetic radiation in the optical range is generated due to shock-wave processes during deceleration of a plasma jet in air and plasma-chemical processes in the vortex. The temporal structure of a radiation pulse being generated contains components from the micro- and millisecond range. For a 20-g mass of the explosive charge, a peak radiation power of 300 kW/sr and an energy yield of 400–600 J/sr integrated over the emission spectrum are attained. The efficiency of conversion of the chemical energy of the explosive into radiation is 5.0–7.5%.     

Calculation of the parameters of excimer light sources on the basis of a positive column glow discharge

We calculate the concentration of plasma and gas-temperature components in a contracted filament of a glow capillary discharge (R = 0.75 mm) in xenon for pressures of P = 100 and 400 Torr and currents of I = 6–15 mA for cases of with and without cryogenic cooling of the discharge. We find that the gas temperature in the channel of the glow discharge has a value of 1000–2000 K, the concentration of xenon excimers attains a maximum at the boundary of the filament with a value of 10¹⁰–10¹¹ cm⁻³, and the efficiency of electric energy transformation into excimer radiation energy has a value of 0.1–5%.     

Study of molybdenum K-series line radiation emission from a low energy plasma focus

K-series line radiation emission of Mo and Cu from a low energy Mather-type plasma focus is investigated. Quantrad Si pin diodes are employed as time resolved X-ray detectors, where as a pin hole camera is used for time integrated analysis. The measurable X-ray flux for hydrogen is observed in the pressure range of 0.5–3.5 mbar. Mo and Cu K-line radiation emission in this geometry has the highest values of about 0.05 J/sr and 0.17 J/sr, respectively at a filling pressure of 2.0 mbar. The corresponding efficiencies are 0.03% and 0.09%, respectively. Total X-ray emission and efficiency in 4π-geometry are also obtained with values 4.12 J and 0.18% at 2.0 mbar. The Mo K-line radiation emission may result due to interaction of energetic electron beam emitted from the focus region with the molybdenum insert.     

CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> laser oscillating in the range of 16 μm

The ability of a CO₂ laser to oscillate in the range of 16 (14) μm at room temperature was investigated experimentally and theoretically. The output energy per pulse was ~60 mJ at peak power of ~50 kW. It was necessary to minimize not only harmful losses but also useful ones in both channels 00⁰1–02⁰0 and 02⁰0–0110 and to increase the input energy, i.e., the density of free electrons in the discharge, in order to increase the peak power and energy of 16-μm radiation. The highest values of peak power and energy of radiation were reached at different pressures of the active mixture. The rotational bottleneck effect limiting the peak power and energy of oscillation was important at rather low pressures of the active medium. Oscillation at the R12 line is more preferable than that at the P12 line for use as 9.6-μm dumping radiation.     

Cylindrical glow-discharge-pumped excimer lamps

The results of investigations of the emission of glow discharges in mixtures of inert gases and halogens in cylindrical tubes of various dimensions are presented. Glow-discharge-pumped XeCl* and KrCl* excimer lamps with a homogeneous spatial distribution of the radiation and powers up to 100 W are created. It is shown that the high efficiency of excimer lamps of this type is achieved as a result of the effective formation of exciplexes in a harpoon reaction and the slow rate of their quenching in the glow-discharge plasma at low pressures of the working mixture. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 68, 64–68 (February 1998)     

The influence of the quality of ruby on the parameters of the Q-switched laser

The factors influencing energy threshold, slope efficiency and damage threshold of the Q-switched ruby laser are described. Energy output of crystals containing O^– centre (increased absorption near 430 nm) is not substantially decreased. Energy threshold increase and output decrease of the Q-switched ruby were also observed using rods with anomalous birefringence, whereas optical homogenity defined as a number of interference fringes is not so important as in the case of the free-running laser. Damage threshold due to laser radiation is decreased by the presence of divalent chromium, striations and to a lesser extent by the presence of inclusions.     

In situ monitoring the pulse CO2 laser interaction with 316-L stainless steel using acoustical signals and plasma analysis

In most laser material processing, material removal by different mechanisms is involved. Here, application of acoustic signals with thermoelastic (below threshold) and breakdown origin (above threshold) together with plasma plume analysis as a simple monitoring system of interaction process is suggested. In this research the interaction of pulse CO₂ laser with 200 ns duration and maximum energy of 1.3 J operating at 1 Hz with austenitic stainless steel (316-L) is reported. The results showed that the non-linear point of the curve can serve as a useful indicator of melting fluence threshold (in this case ≈830 J cm⁻²) with corresponding temperature calculated using plasma plume analysis. Higher acoustic amplitudes and larger plasma plume volume indicates more intense interaction. Also, analysis showed that a phase explosion process with material removal (ejecta) in the form of non-adiabatic (i.e., d_t ? α⁻¹) is at play after laser pulse is ended. Also, SEM photographs show different surface quality medication at different laser intensities, which indicates the importance of recoil momentum pressure and possibly electrons and ions densities in heat transfer. Finally, electrochemical test indicate an improved corrosion resistance for laser treated samples compared to untreated ones.