Laser-plasma interactions 4. (2020)

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• Further Information: Note: Edited by M.B Hooper.
• Editors: Hooper, M. B
• Contents: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS AND APPLICATIONS OF LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS -- M H KEY -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. LASER FUSION -- Direct drive -- Indirect drive -- Comparison of inertial fusion and magnetic fusion Future facilities -- 2. DENSE PLASMAS -- 3. HIGH INTENSITY LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS -- 4. PARTICLE ACCELERATORS Wake field acceleration -- 5. XUV AND X-RAY SOURCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS -- 6. XUV AND X-RAY LASERS -- 7. PARTICLE SOURCES -- 8. DEVELOPMENTS IN LASER TECHNOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- LASER LIGHT PROPAGATION AND INTERACTION WITH PLASMA -- P. MULSER -- 1. CAPACITOR MODEL OF RESONANCE ABSORPTION -- 1.1 Linear resonance absorption -- 1.2 High amplitude electron waves and wavebreaking -- 2. ABSORPTION OF INTENSE fs LASER PULSES -- 2.1 Plasma parameters and the problem of absorption -- 2.2 Collision frequency under strong drift conditions -- Excitation of plasma oscillations by a single fast particle -- Collision frequencies -- Screening and statistical independence -- 2.3 Anomalous skin effect -- 2.4 Ionisation dephasing -- 3. WAVE ACTION AND PROPAGATION IN MODULATED PLASMAS -- 3.1 Generalized ponderomotive action on single particles -- 3.2 Light propagation in periodically modulated plasmas REFERENCES -- LASER—INDUCED RADIATION HYDRODYNAMICS: AN INTRODUCTION -- R. SIGEL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RADIATIVE TRANSPORT -- 2.1 Radiation confinement -- 2.2 The hydrodynamic equations -- 2.3 The transport'of energy by radiation 2.4 The maximum opacity theorem -- 3. SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTIONS -- 3.1 The Buckingham theorem and self-similarity -- 3.2 The isothermal rarefaction wave as an example of self-similar gas motion -- 3.3 The radiation driven ablative heat wave -- 4. EXPERIMENTS REFERENCES -- LASER— DRIVEN INSTABILITIES IN LONG SCALELENGTH PLASMAS — II -- W L KRUER -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING -- 3. EFFECT OF ION FLUCTUATIONS ON SRS -- 4. LASER BEAM FILAMENTATION -- 5. LASER BEAM SMOOTHING -- 6. SUMMARY REFERENCES -- SPECTROSCOPY AND ATOMIC PHYSIC* -- J.C. GAUTHIER -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BASIC ATOMIC PHYSICS -- 2.1 Atomic structure -- 2.2 Radiative processes -- 2.2.1 Line emission -- 2.2.2 Continuum emission -- 2.3 Effects of plasma environment -- 2.3.1 Ionization and excitation equilibrium in a plasma -- Local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) Coronal equilibrium (CE) Collisional-radiative equilibrium (NLPE) -- 2.3.2 Line profiles -- 2.3.3 Radiation transport and plasma reabsorption -- 3. SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES -- 3.1 Crystal spectrographs -- 3.2 Grating spectrographs -- 3.3 Spot spectroscopy -- 4. K-SHELL SPECTROSCOPY -- 5. L-SHELL SPECTROSCOPY -- 6. M-SHELL SPECTROSCOPY REFERENCES -- TRANSPORT IN LASER—PRODUCED PLASMAS -- M.G. HAINES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COULOMB COLLISIONS -- 3. FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION -- 4. LINEAR TRANSPORT THEORY -- 5. MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION -- 6. NONLINEAR HEAT FLUX IN LASER FUSION -- 7. EXPERIMENTS ON NONLINEAR HEAT FLOW -- 8. FUTURE WORK REFERENCES -- DENSE PLASMA PHYSICS S J ROSE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL MODELS -- 2.1 Strong-coupling -- 2.2 Electron degeneracy -- 2.3 Bound electronic structure -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL WORK -- 4. * CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES -- COMPUTER SIMULATION OE LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS -- G J PERT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM -- 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL -- 4. THE COMPUTATIONAL MODEL -- 4.1 Numerical formulation -- 4.2 Finite difference methods -- 4.3 Finite difference approximations -- 5. PARTICLE CODES -- 6. PARTICLE COLLISION CODES -- 7. FLUID CODES -- 8. SIMULATION PHYSICS REFERENCES -- DIAGNOSTICS AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS OE LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS -- 0. WILLI -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS -- 2.1 Emission spectroscopy -- 2.1.1 Continuum emission -- 2.1.2 Scattering light and harmonic emission Emission close to the incident laser frequency Broadband emission between uO /2 and wO Harmonic emission -- 2.2 Laser beam probing -- 2.2.1 Interferometry -- 2.2.2 Polarimetry -- 2.2.3 Schli ren imaging and shadowgraphy -- 2.2.4 Refractometry -- 3. XUV /VUV DIAGNOSTICS -- 3.1 XUV Spectroscopy -- 3.2 VUV Spatial imaging 4. X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS -- 4.1 Emission spectroscopy -- 4.2 Absorption spectroscopy -- 4.2.1 Absorption spectroscopy using the core emission of laser compressed targets -- 4.2.2 Backlighting techniques using a subsiduary x-ray source Production of an intense x-ray source Pulsed radiography -- Study of the uniformity and dynamics of implosions -- Thermal smoothing -- Investigations of super dense plasmas Streaked radiography -- Dynamics of implosions -- Rayleigh-Taylor instability -- Point projection radiography -- REFERENCES -- DEVELOPMENT AND H X GH — POWER LASER SYSTEMS AND THE XR APPLICATION TO ICE -- R.L. McCRORY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LASER-FUSION SCALING LAWS -- 3. CORONAL PHYSICS -- 4. LASER-DRIVEN ABLATION -- 4.1 Experiments in thermal electron energy transport -- 4.2 Modelling of thermal electron energy transport -- 5. HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY OF ABLATIVELY DRIVEN SHELLS -- 6. IRRADIATION UNIFORMITY REQUIREMENTS -- 7. IMPLOSION EXPERIMENTS -- 7.1 Implosion experiments and diagnostics -- 7.2 OMEGA high density compression experiments REFERENCES -- LASER—PLASMA X—UV SOURCES F. O'NEILL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF LASER-PLASMA XUV SOURCES -- 2.1 Experimental details -- 2.2 Spectral properties of the source -- 2.3 Physical characteristics of the source -- 2.3.1 XUV pulse duration -- 2.3.2 Source size -- 2.3.3 Angular distribution of emission -- 2.4 Dependence of XUV conversion efficiency on target Z -- 2.5 Dependence of XUV conversion efficiency on laser parameters -- 2.5.1 Laser wavelength -- 2.5.2 Laser irradiance on target -- 3. COMPARISON OF LASER-PLASMA AND SYNCHROTRON XUV SOURCES -- 3.1 Synchrotron radiation -- 3.2 Insertion devices for storage rings -- 3.3 XUV source comparison -- 4. APPLICATIONS OF LASER-PLASMA XUV SOURCES -- 4.1 General description of applications -- 4.2 Pulsed X-ray microradiography of a laser-driven implosion -- 4.3 X-ray lithography -- 5. CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES -- PLASMA-BASED SOFT X—RAY LASERS -- C L S LEWIS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BASIC CONSIDERATIONS IN LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA CONTEXT -- 2.1 Transition energies in ions -- 2.2 Potential gain coefficients -- 2.3 High aspect ratio plasmas -- 2.4 Saturated ASE output -- 2.5 Pump power requirements -- 2.6 Opacity limitations -- 2.7 Refraction limitations -- 3. SOME PUMPING MECHANISMS -- 3.1 The nature of the pump design problem -- 3.2 The collision or thermal limit -- 3.3 Recombination pumping -- 3.4 Collisional pumping -- 3.5 Resonant photopumping -- 4. RECENT EXPERIMENTAL PROGRESS -- 4.1 H- and Li-like recombination schemes -- 4.2 Ne- and Ni-collisional schemes -- 4.3 Photoexcitation schemes -- 5. CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES -- PLASMA BASED ACCELERATORS -- R G Evans -- 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND -- 1.1 Lasers and particle acceleration -- The laser excited cavity The inverse free electron laser The inverse Cerenkov accelerator Plasma based accelerators -- 2. PRINCIPLES OF THE BEAT WAVE ACCELERATOR -- 2.1 Basic principles -- 2.2 Growth and saturation of the beat wave -- 2.3 Behaviour of the electromagnetic waves -- 2.4 Transverse effects -- 2.5 Efficiency issues -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL WORK -- 4. OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS -- 5. OTHER PLASMA BASED ACCELERATORS -- 5.1 The "Surfatron" -- 5.2 The plasma wake field accelerator -- Plasma instabilities in the wake field accelerator -- 5.3 The laser wake field accelerator -- 6. PLASMAS FOR FOCUSING PARTICLE BEAMS -- 7. CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES -- REFERENCES.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 530.44; Laser-plasma interactions; Laser plasmas
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000156959
• Related ISBNs: 9781000112146; 9781000132106; 9781003070436
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