Observation of collisionless shocks in laser-plasma experiments

被引：149

作者：

Romagnani, L. ^{[1
]}

Bulanov, S. V. ^{[2
,3
]}

Borghesi, M. ^{[1
]}

Audebert, P. ^{[4
]}

Gauthier, J. C. ^{[5
]}

Loewenbrueck, K. ^{[6
]}

Mackinnon, A. J. ^{[7
]}

Patel, P. ^{[7
]}

Pretzler, G. ^{[6
]}

Toncian, T. ^{[6
]}

Willi, O. ^{[6
]}

机构：

[1] Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Math & Phys, Belfast BT7 1NN, Antrim, North Ireland

[2] JAEA, APRC, Kyoto 6190215, Japan

[3] Prokhorov Inst Gen Phys RAS, Moscow 119991, Russia

[4] Univ Paris 06, Ecole Polytech, CEA,CNRS,UMR 7605, LULI, F-91128 Palaiseau, France

[5] Univ Bordeaux 1, CNRS, CEA, Ctr Lasers Intenses & Applicat, F-33405 Talence, France

[6] Univ Dusseldorf, Inst Laser & Plasmaphys, Dusseldorf, Germany

[7] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2008年 / 101卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.025004

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

The propagation in a rarefied plasma (n(e)less than or similar to 10(15) cm(-3)) of collisionless shock waves and ion-acoustic solitons, excited following the interaction of a long (tau(L)similar to 470 ps) and intense (I similar to 10(15) W cm(-2)) laser pulse with solid targets, has been investigated via proton probing techniques. The shocks' structures and related electric field distributions were reconstructed with high spatial and temporal resolution. The experimental results were interpreted within the framework of the nonlinear wave description based on the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation.

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