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Nonlinear absorption of ultra short laser pulses by clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2006

M. KANAPATHIPILLAI
M. KANAPATHIPILLAI
Affiliation:
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Abstract

Very good absorption of ultra short laser pulses by clusters is a well established fact. Efficient collisional absorption occurs only in the initial phase of the pulse. However, experiments and numerical simulations show that even after collisional absorption becomes inefficient subsequent to heating of the electrons, strong absorption continues. There have been a few attempts to model this phenomenon in terms of driven “linear” oscillator models with time dependent eigen-frequencies. Here we propose a nonlinear oscillator model and show that nonlinear resonance is the leading mechanism responsible for the collisionless absorption. Further it is demonstrated, on the basis of Lyapunov spectra, that laser-cluster interaction, under certain conditions, exhibits chaotic behavior.

Keywords

ChaosClustersLaser-cluster interactionLyapunov exponents
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 9 - 14
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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