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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 4, 023 (2009)

Review Articles

Review of Energetic Particle Generation and Electromagnetic Radiation from Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yutong LI1), Zhengming SHENG1,2), Liming CHEN1), Xin LU1), Jinglong MA1), Zhaohua WANG1), Quanli DONG1), Zhiyi WEI1) and Jie ZHANG1,2)
1)
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
2)
Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
(Received 31 January 2009 / Accepted 23 March 2009 / Published 23 June 2009)

Abstract

This review covers recent developments in multi-hundred-TW femtosecond laser systems and progress in intense laser-plasma interactions at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The peak power of the institute's Xtreme Light III (XL-III) laser system has been upgraded from 350 to 725 TW, and the system used to observe the lateral transport of fast electrons due to magnetic and electrostatic fields at target surfaces. The surface fields cause fast-electron beams to be emitted along the front and rear target surfaces. Confinement and guiding of fast-electron propagation is demonstrated with wire- or wedge-shaped targets. Longitudinal transport is detected by optical and ion emission. Numerical simulations show that quasi-monoenergetic ion beams can be generated by collisionless electrostatic shock acceleration and phase-stable acceleration with a circularly polarized laser field. A new mechanism for high-power THz emission with plasmas as media is proposed; it can be used to obtain a single-cycle THz emission. The conversion efficiency from laser energy to Kα X-ray emission in a laser-copper target interaction is increased to 10-4 using high-contrast laser pulses.

Keywords

ultraintense laser-plasma interaction, femtosecond laser pulse, fast electron, energetic ion, THz radiation, ultrafast x-ray emission

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.4.023

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Yutong LI, Zhengming SHENG, Liming CHEN, Xin LU, Jinglong MA, Zhaohua WANG, Quanli DONG, Zhiyi WEI and Jie ZHANG, Plasma Fusion Res. 4, 023 (2009).