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近临界密度是激光等离子体相互作用中能量吸收和高能电子产生的重要等离子体参数区间. 利用激光加速产生的质子束作为电磁场探针, 研究了超强激光与近临界密度等离子体相互作用产生的等离子体结构及其时间演化. 实验发现, 初始均匀分布的质子束穿过近临界密度等离子体后分裂为两个斑. 两个质子束斑的间距随着作用时间先增大后减小. 并且两个束斑呈不对称分布. 分析认为, 幅度约为109 V/m的不对称分布瞬变电场是产生质子束偏折和分裂的主要原因. 粒子模拟的结果也验证了这一解释. 该研究对激光尾场电子加速、离子加速、惯性约束聚变快点火方案研究等有一定的参考价值.When ultrashort pulse laser interacts with near-critical-density plasma, extremely strong transient electromagnetic field will generate a great variety of nonlinear phenomena, such as efficient pulse absorption, magnetic self-channeling, nonlinear coherent structure, and electron and ion acceleration. It is of great significance to make a profound study of these physical processes for studying the laser-plasma interaction. Here in this work, we investigate the near-critical-density plasma structure and its temporal evolution by using proton radiography. The plasma is generated by the interaction of ultra-intense femtosecond laser (I
$\sim $ 3.6 × 1018 W/cm2) with high-density gas-jet target, which can produce plasma with electron density ne$ \sim$ 0.7nc (here, nc is the near-critical-density) for 800 nm laser. The proton beam is produced by the interaction of another ultra-intense femtosecond laser with stainless steel foil target. In the experiment, the proton beam is split into two asymmetric spots. On the one hand, the distance between two spots first increases rapidly and decreases slowly as time goes by. On the other hand, the size of proton beam spot on the right side is obviously lager than the one on the left side. The modification of proton beam profile indicates that a transient electric field with a maximum amplitude of 109 V/m is produced when ultrashort laser pulse interacts with the plasma. Besides, the electric field in the direction of laser propagation axis is stronger than that in the opposite direction. When the proton beam goes through the laser-plasma interaction area, most of the protons enter into the electric field in the direction of laser propagation axis, only a small number of protons enter into the electric field in the opposite direction, resulting in the fact that the proton beam is split into two asymmetric spots. The space-charge field in the plasma is induced by the laser ponderomotive force which expels the electrons piled up into a step-like profile. This field can be sustained for a long time, as the ions expand slowly because of the coulomb repulsion between ions, and the hot electrons continue to move forward with energy of a few MeV. At the end, these expanded ions gradually recombine with the reflowed electrons, causing the space-charge field to weaken until it disappears eventually. As a result, the deflection of the proton beam by the electric field in the plasma is also weakened, so the distance between proton beam splitting spots is correspondingly reduced. The hypothesis is justified by the particle-in-cell simulations. The results may have important implications in laser wake-field electron acceleration, ion acceleration and fast ignition scheme to inertial confinement fusion.-
Keywords:
- ultra-intense laser /
- near-critical-density /
- plasma /
- proton radiography
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图 1 (a)实验布局图; (b)距离喷口不同高度时的气体密度分布图
Fig. 1. (a) Experimental setup; (b) gas density lineout profile at different heights.
图 2 光学探针与质子探针结果(激光自左向右入射) (a)光学阴影成像; (b)原始质子束斑; (c)打靶3.3 ps后的质子束斑; (d)打靶43.3 ps后的质子束斑; (e)−(g)打靶高度处对应的质子强度图(黄线)
Fig. 2. Raw images of optical probe and proton probe: (a) Optical probe result; proton beam spot for (b) no gas, (c) 3.3 ps after interaction, (d) 43.3 ps after interaction; (e)−(g) the corresponding lineout intensity profiles.
图 3 质子束被等离子体电磁场偏折示意图
Fig. 3. Schematic of proton beam deflected by plasma electromagnetic field.
图 4 等离子体内部电场大小随时间的变化
Fig. 4. Internal electric field size of the plasma changes with time.
图 6 不同密度等离子体中不同时刻的时间平均的纵向电场强度和电势分布 (a)−(c)最高密度为0.8 × 1021 cm–3; (d)−(f)最高密度为1.2 × 1021 cm–3; (g)−(i)最高密度为1.2 × 1021 cm–3
Fig. 6. Averaged longitudinal electric field and potential distributions with times of plasma with different density: (a)−(c) The highest plasma density is 0.8 × 1021 cm–3; (d)−(f) the highest plasma density is 1.0 × 1021 cm–3; (g)−(i) the highest plasma density is 1.2 × 1021 cm–3.
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