Dynamics of Coulomb explosion of hydrogen clusters in a high-intensity femtosecond laser pulse

Using Bethe model, the dynamics of the ionization and Coulomb explosion of hydrogen clusters (0.5-5 nm) in high-intensity (1015 -1017 W/cm2) femtosecond laser pulses have been studied theoretically, and the dependence of energy of protons emitted from exploding clusters on cluster size and laser intensity has been investigated. It is found that the maximum proton energy increases exponentially with the cluster size, and the exponent is mainly determined by the laser intensity. For a given cluster size, the maximum proton energy increases with increasing laser intensity and gets saturation gradually. The calculation results are in agreement with the recent experimental observation.     

均匀展宽介质中激光超短脉冲面积的演化规律

用数值计算方法研究了均匀展宽二能级体系在激光超短脉冲作用下介质参量、入射脉冲面积、弛豫时间和频率失谐量对光脉冲面积演化的影响.计算结果表明,脉冲面积会在最接近输入脉冲面积2π偶数倍的值上振荡,并经过一定的传播距离后,台阶式跳跃到下一个偶数倍2π的值上振荡.