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Fokker-Planck simulations of ultrashort-pulse laser-plasma interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

L. Drska ,
J. Limpouch  and
R. Liska
L. Drska
Affiliation:
Computational Physics Group, Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Prague, Czechoslovakia
J. Limpouch
Affiliation:
Computational Physics Group, Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Prague, Czechoslovakia
R. Liska
Affiliation:
Computational Physics Group, Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Abstract

The interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with a fully ionized plasma is investigated in the plane geometry by means of numerical simulation. The impact of the space oscillations in the amplitude of the laser electric field on the shape of the electron distribution function, on laser beam absorption, and on electron heat transport is demonstrated. Oscillations in the absorption rate of laser radiation with the minima coincident to the maxima of the laser electric field lead to a further decrease in the absorption of laser radiation. Heat flux in the direction of increasing temperature in the underdense region is caused by the modification of the electron distribution function and by the density gradient. A limitation of heat flux to the overdense plasma isobserved with the flux limiter in range 0.03–0.08, growing moderately with the intensity 1014–1016 W/cm2 of the incident 1.2-ps laser pulse.

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Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 461 - 471
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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