CO<SUB>2</SUB> Laser Interaction with Dense Plasma

Dense monoenergetic proton beams from chirped laser-plasma interaction.

Interaction of a frequency-chirped laser pulse with single protons and a hydrogen gas target is studied analytically and by means of particle-in-cell simulations, respectively. The feasibility of generating ultraintense (10(7) particles per bunch) and phase-space collimated beams of protons (energy spread of about 1%) is demonstrated. Phase synchronization of the protons and the laser field, gu...

Dense-plasma Dynamics during Pulsed Laser Annealing

The flow of energy from the laser to the lattice during pulsed laser annealing of Si is examined, with particular attention paid to the influence of the dense'plasma of hot, photoexcited carriers on-the manner in which this energy transfer occurs. Consideration of carrier thermalization and recombination at high carrier densities suggests that under certain conditions carrier diffusion may incr...

Laser-produced plasma-wall interaction

Jets of laser–generated plasma represent a flexible and well-defined model environment for investigation of plasma interactions with solid surfaces (walls). The pilot experiments carried out on the iodine laser system (5–200 J, 0.44 mm, 0.25–0.3 ns, ,1 10 W/cm) at the PALS Research Centre in Prague are reported. Modification of macroscopic characteristics of the Al plasma jets produced at laser...

Mathematical Models for Laser-plasma Interaction

We address here mathematical models related to the Laser-Plasma Interaction. After a simplified introduction to the physical background concerning the modelling of the laser propagation and its interaction with a plasma, we recall some classical results about the geometrical optics in plasmas. Then we deal with the well known paraxial approximation of the solution of the Maxwell equation; we st...

Laser-electron Compton Interaction in Plasma Channels