Physics of laser driven plasmas

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5780404

Hora, H

The book represents an introduction to the physics of high-intensity laser-produced plasmas, which may become important as a fusion energy process. Following a brief review of the various phenomena of laser-produced plasmas, the properties including plasma frequency, Debye length, collision frequency and Boltzmann equation on which the macroscopic hydrodynamics of plasmas is based are derived. Maxwellian theory for the complicated waves in inhomogeneous plasmas is developed, and plasma dynamics under laser irradiation is considered in terms of the equation of motion with nonlinear electromagnetic interactions. Results are then applied to the problems of momentum transfer, the ion energies of nonlinear laser-driven plasmas, photon momentum in plasmas (the Abraham-Minkowski problem) and parametric instabilities, and numerical and experimental examples are presented, with particular attention given to soliton processes. Attention is also given to striated motion and resonance absorption, the self-focusing of laser beams in plasmas due to ponderomotive forces or relativistic effects, and the use of laser compression in fast ion generation and nuclear fusion.

• OSTI ID: 5780404
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BRILLOUIN EFFECT
COHERENT SCATTERING
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
DYNAMICS
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS OF MOTION
FLUID MECHANICS
FLUX DENSITY
FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT
FUSION REACTIONS
HYDRODYNAMICS
IRRADIATION
KINETICS
LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA
MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
MECHANICS
MOMENTUM TRANSFER
NONUNIFORM IRRADIATION
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
PLASMA
PLASMA WAVES
PLASMONS
QUASI PARTICLES
RADIANT FLUX DENSITY
SCATTERING
STRESSES
TENSORS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS