Laser-Plasma Generation

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LASER-PLASMA INTARECTION
With the development of the technology of laser enabled the experiments using laser pulse with a high intensity of the order 〖10〗^22 W/〖cm〗^2. So now it brings the possibility of study the parameters of plasma as well as the atoms. The study related to the laser-plasma interaction involves the self-focusing, which is a very important factor to consider. Because the intensity of such a huge order came from it and high power laser and its applications, harmonic generation, X-ray generation, various laser plasma accelerator are depend upon it. Laser will not diverge up to the Rayleigh length, after this range the beam expands due to the natural diffraction. So laser need a channel for guiding the beam and prevent the diffraction. All phenomena like harmonic generation, relativistic self focusing can be studied in the relativistic nonlinear optical effect.
Propagation of laser beam in plasma
When a laser pulse interacts with plasma, the free electrons and ions that are inside the plasma will respond to, a very small scale deviation of their orientation and will be displaced slightly in an electromagnetic wave of frequency . Subsequently to a distortion of the charge neutrality, the particles which are in plasma tend to oscillate with a frequency known as electron plasma frequency. The resonance frequency of the resulting oscillations is known as the plasma frequency . Depending on their mass , charge and density .
, =
Where is the electron plasma frequency, is the ion plasma frequency. Plasma is considered as an electron clouds having the background of heavy ion and collisions are nearly neglected according to the drude model. That’s why dielectric constant of electron can be ...

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...ration of proton is not possible with available laser intensity. Because of its heavy mass, acceleration up to MeV need more laser intensity to overcome relativistic threshold. Energetic ions observed in the laser-solid interaction have been accelerated not directly by the laser fields but by the plasma fields which are formed by the laser heated electrons formed from solid or gas. However, these plasma electrons can inter-mediate the forces of laser fields on ions by generating strong quasi-static electric fields which arises from the charge separation due to the laser propagation. To accelerate the ion or proton need strong enough static electric field which can be explained best in two scenarios. These scenarios are
I. Radiation Pressure Acceleration ( RPA ) ii. Target Normal Sheath Acceleration ( TNSA ).

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