Laser pulse dispersion in underdense plasma and associated ion acceleration by relativistic self-induced transparency

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作者
Choudhary, Shivani [1 ]
Holkundkar, Amol R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Birla Inst Technol & Sci Pilani, Dept Phys, Pilani 333031, Rajasthan, India
关键词
INTENSE; PROPAGATION;
D O I
10.1063/1.5088236
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
The propagation of laser pulses in the underdense plasma is a very crucial aspect of the laser-plasma interaction process. In this work, we explored the two regimes of laser propagation in the plasma, one with a(0) < 1 and the other with a 0 greater than or similar to 10. For the a(0) < 1 case, we used a cold relativistic fluid model, wherein apart from immobile ions no further approximations are made. The effects of laser pulse amplitude, pulse duration, and plasma density are studied using the fluid model and compared with the expected scaling laws and also with the particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The agreement between the fluid model and the PIC simulations are found to be excellent. Furthermore, for the a 0 greater than or similar to 10 case, we used the PIC simulations alone. The delicate interplay between the conversion from the electromagnetic field energy to the longitudinal electrostatic fields results in dispersion, and so the redshift of the pump laser pulse. The dispersed pulse is then allowed to be incident on the subwavelength two-layer composite target. The underdense plasma before the target regulates the dispersion of the pulse. We observed an optimum pretarget plasma density which results in the acceleration of the ions from the secondary layer to similar to 170MeV by a similar to 8 fs linearly polarized Gaussian laser pulse with similar to 8.5x10(20) W/cm(2).
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