High Power Laser-Matter Interaction: 238 - Rilegato

Mulser, Peter; Bauer, Dieter

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ISBN 10: 3540506691 ISBN 13: 9783540506690

Casa editrice: Springer Nature, 2010

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dimensionalanalysis,questionsofclassicaloptics,instabilitiesandlightpressure. Inviewoftherapidlygrowing eldofatoms,moleculesandclustersexposedto superstronglaser eldsweconsidereditascompulsorytodedicateanentirechapter tolaser–atominteractionandtothevariousmoderntheoreticalapproachesrelated toit. Finally,aconsistentmodelofcollisionlessabsorptionisgiven. Dependingonpersonalpreferencesthereadermaymissperhapsasectionon inertialfusion,onhighharmonicgenerationandonradiationfromtheplasma,or ontraditionalatomicandionicspectroscopy. Inviewofthespecializedliterature vii viii Preface alreadyavailableonthesubjectswethinktheself-imposedrestrictionisjusti ed. Ourreferencingpracticewasguidedbyindicatingmaterialforsupplementaryst- iesandestablishingacontinuitythroughthedecadesofresearchinthe eldrather thanbytheaimofcompleteness. Thelatternowadaysiseasilyachievablewiththe aidoftheInternet. Wehavetestedthetextwithrespecttocomprehensionandreadability. Our rst thanksgotoProf. EdithBoriefromtheForschungszentrumKarlsruhe. Shepro- readgreatpartsofthetextverycarefullyandgavevaluablecomments. Insecond placewewouldliketothankMrs. ChristineEidmannfromTheoreticalQuantum A Electronics (TQE), TU Darmstadt, for typing in LTX half of the book. We are E furtherindebtedtoProf. RudolfBockfromGSI,Darmstadt,forhelpfuldiscussions andprecioushints. Furtherthanksforhelpfuldiscussions,criticalcomments,che- ingformulasgotoDr. HerbertSchnabl,Prof. WernerScheid,Dr. RalfSchneider, Dipl. -Phys. TatjanaMuth,Dr. SteffenHain,andDr. FrancescoCeccherini. Wewant toacknowledgeexplicitlythecontinuouseffortandsupportinpreparingthe nal manuscript by Dr. Su-Ming Weng from the Insitute of Physics, CAS, China, at presentfellowoftheHumboldtFoundationatTQE. Forhisprofessionalinputto thesectiononBrillouinscatteringspecialthanksgotoDr. StefanHüllerfromEcole PolytechniqueinPalaiseau. Darmstadt,Germany PeterMulser Rostock,Germany DieterBauer Contents 1 Introductory Remarks and Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 The Laser Plasma: Basic Phenomena and Laws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. 1 Laser–ParticleInteractionandPlasmaFormation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 1. 1 High-PowerLaserFields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 1. 2 SingleFreeElectronintheLaserField(Nonrelativistic). . 9 2. 1. 3 CollisionalIonization,PlasmaHeating,andQuasineutrality 13 2. 2 FluidDescriptionofaPlasma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2. 2. 1 Two-FluidandOne-FluidModels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2. 2. 2 LinearizedMotions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2. 2. 3 SimilaritySolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 2. 3 LaserPlasmaDynamics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2. 3. 1 PlasmaProductionwithIntenseShortPulses . . . . . . . . . . . 60 2. 3. 2 HeatingwithLongPulsesofConstantIntensity. . . . . . . . . 63 2. 3. 3 SimilarityConsiderations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 2. 4 SteadyStateAblation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 2. 4. 1 TheCriticalMachNumberinaStationaryPlanarFlow. . . 75 2. 4. 2 AblativeLaserIntensity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 2. 4. 3 AblationPressureintheAbsenceofPro leSteepening. . . 82 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 3 Laser Light Propagation and Collisional Absorption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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“The aim of the present work is the description of the main aspects of laser-matter interaction ... . In the book many considerations are added which are not covered in former textbooks or monographies. ... The book is intended for students of graduate courses, but it may be also useful for scientists as a reference book.” (Claudia-Veronika Meister, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1221, 2011)

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This book intended as a guide for scientists and students who have just discovered the field as a new and attractive area of research, and for scientists who have worked in another field and want to join now the subject of laser plasmas. In the first chapter the plasma dynamics is described phenomenologically by a two fluid model and similarity relations from dimensional analysis. Chapter 2 is devoted to plasma optics and collisional absorption in the dielectric and ballistic model. Linear resonance absorption at the plasma frequency and its mild nonlinearities as well as the self-quenching of high amplitude electron plasma waves by wave breaking are discussed in Chapter 3. With increasing laser intensity the plasma dynamics is dominated by radiation pressure, at resonance producing all kinds of parametric instabilities and out of resonance leading to density steps, self-focusing and filamentation, described in Chapters 4 and 5. A self-contained treatment of field ionization of atoms and related phenomena are found in Chapter 6. The extension of laser interaction to the relativistic electron acceleration as well as the physics of collisionless absorption are the subject of Chapter 7. Throughout the book the main emphasis is on the various basic phenomena and on their underlying physics.

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• Editore: Springer Nature
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3540506691
• ISBN 13: 9783540506690
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416