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Radiation imprisonment in laser blow-off plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

J. S. Bakos
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest P.O.B. 49, Hungary
I. B. Földes
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest P.O.B. 49, Hungary
P. N. Ignácz
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest P.O.B. 49, Hungary
M. Á. Kedves
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest P.O.B. 49, Hungary
J. Szigeti
Affiliation:
Department of Plasma Physics, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest P.O.B. 49, Hungary

Abstract

Sodium laser blow-off plasma of low temperature (in the 1-eV range) is generated by laser intensities of 108–5.109 W cm−2. Imprisonment of resonant laser light has been observed. These experiments show that basic processes of interaction of radiation with level populations can be studied in the visible range, where the atomic levels have longer lifetimes than the ionic ones in hot plasmas, corresponding to X-ray generation. The imprisonment and resonant effects with various experimental parameters were investigated together with the nonresonant scattering on fragments.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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