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Analytical description of rippling effect and ion acceleration in plasma produced by a short laser pulse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2006

S. GLOWACZ ,
H. HORA ,
J. BADZIAK ,
S. JABLONSKI ,
YU CANG  and
F. OSMAN
S. GLOWACZ
Affiliation:
Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw, Poland School of Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia
H. HORA
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J. BADZIAK
Affiliation:
Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw, Poland
S. JABLONSKI
Affiliation:
Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw, Poland School of Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia
YU CANG
Affiliation:
School of Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
F. OSMAN
Affiliation:
School of Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia
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Abstract

In this paper we present the analytical description of two processes dealing with the skin-layer ponderomotive acceleration method of fast ion generation by a short laser pulse: ion density rippling in the underdense plasma region and generation of ion beams by trapped electromagnetic field in plasma. Some numerical examples of hydrodynamic simulation illustrating these processes are shown. The effect of using the laser pulse consisting of different frequency components on the ion density rippling and on phenomena connected with trapped electromagnetic field is analyzed.

Keywords

Acceleration of plasma blocksDensity ripplingLaser beam smoothingLaser-plasma interactionNonlinear (ponderomotive) forceSuppression of density rippling
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 15 - 25
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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