X-Ray Spectroscopy of Dense Plasmas Produced by Isochoric Heating with Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Journal Article · Wed Oct 20 04:00:00 EDT 2004 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1824859· OSTI ID:20630257

Eidmann, K; Andiel, U; Pisani, F; Witte, K ^[1]; Hakel, P; Abdallah, J; Junkel-Vives, G C ^[2]; Mancini, R C ^[3]

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1. Max Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik, D-85740 Garching (Germany)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (United States)
3. Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0058 (United States)

Hot plasma with temperatures up to 500 eV and densities close to solid state have been generated by focusing intense ultrashort laser pulses on flat solid targets. The heating process is attributed to the energetic electrons, which are created during the laser plasma interaction. They propagate deeply into the target and heat it isochorically. The laser was a frequency-doubled Ti:Sapphire laser with an energy of 60 mJ and a pulse duration of 150 fs. It was focused on layered plane solid targets with an incidence angle of 45 deg. and p-polarized. The K-shell spectra emitted from thin Al sample layers embedded in solid carbon show features such as line broadening, line shift and strong satellite emission, which are characteristic of dense plasmas. The typical duration of the x-ray emission is a few ps. Al targets covered by a diamond layer show that the depth (expressed through areal density) up to which the target is heated is close to 1 mg/cm2, which corresponds to the range of 20 keV electrons. This means that a considerable fraction of 20 to 25% of the incident laser energy is deposited by the hot electrons in the target.

• OSTI ID: 20630257
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 730; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
DIAMONDS
EV RANGE
HOT PLASMA
ICF DEVICES
K SHELL
KEV RANGE
LASER RADIATION
LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA
LASERS
LINE BROADENING
PLASMA DENSITY
PLASMA HEATING
PLASMA PRODUCTION
PULSES
SAPPHIRE
TAIL ELECTRONS
X RADIATION
X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY