Generation and application of ultrahigh laser fields /
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| Author / Creator: | Andreev, Alexander A. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2002. |
| Description: | vi, 276 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4649885 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. General Introduction
- References for Part 1
- Chapter 2. Solid-State Lasers for Generation of Ultra-Short High-Intensity Pulses
- Introduction
- 2.1. Laser Systems with Pulse Compression
- 2.1.1. Chirped Pulse Generation
- 2.1.2. Master Oscillator
- 2.1.3. Pulse Stretching System
- 2.1.4. Amplifying System
- 2.1.5. Compression
- 2.1.6. The Example of CPA Laser System
- 2.1.7. Radiation Contrast
- 2.2. Alternative Ways of Scaling of High-Power Laser System
- 2.3. Limit Parameters of Pulse Compression Lasers
- References for Part 2
- Chapter 3. Applications of Ultra-Strong Laser Field
- Introduction
- 3.1. Absorption of High Intensity Laser Pulse in Over-Dense Plasma
- 3.1.1. Theoretical Model for Hydro Simulations of Absorption
- 3.1.2. Analytical Model for Absorption of P-Polarized Short Laser Pulses in Strongly Inhomogeneous Plasmas
- 3.1.3. Experimental Results of Picosecond Laser Pulse Absorption in Hot Dense Plasma
- 3.1.4. Skin Effect for a P-Polarized Electromagnetic Wave in Inhomogeneous Plasma
- 3.1.5. Nonlinear Absorption of a Short Intense Laser Pulse in an Over-Dense Plasma
- 3.2. Scattering of a Short Laser Pulse in Strongly Inhomogeneous Plasma
- Nonlinear Wave Interaction in Plasma
- SBS in a Laser Plasma
- 3.2.1. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering of Short Intense Laser Pulses in a Dense Plasma
- 3.2.2. Production of Over-Dense Plasma Cavity by Ultra-Intense Laser Pulse Interaction with Solid Target and Analysis by Scattered Light
- 3.2.3. Back Scattering of Ultra Short High Intensity Laser Pulses from Solid Targets at Oblique Incidence
- 3.2.4. Second Harmonic Emission from Solid Target Irradiated by Short Laser Pulse
- 3.3. X-Ray Emission from Laser Plasma
- 3.3.1. Analytical Model for Continuum X-Ray Radiation Yield from Laser Plasma
- 3.3.2. Numerical Code and Laser-Plasma Coupling
- 3.3.3. Prospects of 'Water Window' X-Ray Emission from Laser Plasma
- 3.3.4. Enhancement of X-Ray Line Emission by Shaping Short Intense Laser Pulses
- 3.3.5. Hard X-Ray Emission by a Solid Target Nonlinearly Interacting with an Intense Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse
- 3.4. Fast Particle Acceleration in Short Laser Pulse Interaction with Solid Target
- 3.4.1. Escape into Vacuum of Fast Electrons Generated by Oblique Incidence of an Ultra Short Super Intense Laser Pulse on a Solid Target
- 3.4.2. Production of Fast Electrons by High-Power Laser Pulse in Dense Plasmas
- 3.4.3. Ion Acceleration at Moderate Laser Intensity
- 3.4.4. Ion Acceleration when an Ultra Intense Laser Pulse Interacts with a Foil Target
- 3.4.5. Analysis of the Experimental Data
- 3.5. "Fast Ignition" Method for Inertial Confine Fusion
- 3.5.1. Fast Ignition of ICF Target by Hot Electrons
- 3.5.2. Efficiency of the Thermonuclear Burning in Laser Targets with Fast Ignition
- 3.5.3. "Fast Igniter" ICF Scheme Using Laser Triggered Fast Ions
- 3.6. Laser Nucleonic
- Basic Concept of a Laser Triggering Monochromatic Nuclear [gamma] - Source
- 3.6.1. Laser Induced [gamma] - Fluorescence of Isomeric Nuclei
- 3.6.2. Laser Triggering Nuclear Reaction [gamma] - Source
- 3.6.3. High-Power Laser Plasma Source of Nuclear Reaction
- 3.7.. Non-Linear Optical Phenomena and Damage of Vacuum in the Field of Super-Strong Laser Radiation
- 3.7.1. Electromagnetic Processes
- 3.7.2. Vacuum Damage
- References for Part 3
- Index
