Dynamic high pressure generation through plasma implosion driven by an intense laser pulse
When an intense laser pulse is loaded upon solids, very high impact pressure can be generated on the surface. In this letter, we simulate this process through one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation and find that the pressure as high as 0.13 TPa can be g...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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AIP Publishing LLC
2017-03-01
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| Series: | AIP Advances |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4975633 |
| Summary: | When an intense laser pulse is loaded upon solids, very high impact
pressure
can be generated on the surface. In this letter, we simulate this process through
one-dimensional particle-in-cell
simulation and find that the pressure as high as 0.13 TPa can be generated after
the laser pulse with intensity 1015 W/cm2 and 5 picosecond duration
is injected upon a nanometer solid-density plasma. The peak pressure is shown to be
resulted from an energetic high-density plasma bunch, produced through plasma implosion
under extremely high light pressure. |
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| ISSN: | 2158-3226 |