Monochromatic 2D Emission Images Revealing Short-Pulse Laser Isochoric Heating Mechanism
Abstract
The rapid heating of a thin titanium foil by a high intensity, subpicosecond laser is studied by using a 2D narrow-band x-ray imaging and x-ray spectroscopy. Here, a novel monochromatic imaging diagnostic tuned to 4.51 keV Ti Kα was used to successfully visualize a significantly ionized area ( < Z > >17±1) of the solid density plasma to be within a ~35 μm diameter spot in the transverse direction and 2 μm in depth. The measurements and a 2D collisional particle-in-cell simulation reveal that, in the fast isochoric heating of solid foil by an intense laser light, such a high ionization state in solid titanium is achieved by thermal diffusion from the hot preplasma in a few picoseconds after the pulse ends. The shift of Kα and formation of a missing Kα cannot be explained with the present atomic physics model. The measured Kα image is reproduced only when a phenomenological model for the Kα shift with a threshold ionization of < Z > =17 is included. This work reveals how the ionization state and electron temperature of the isochorically heated nonequilibrium plasma are independently increased.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
- Osaka Univ. (Japan)
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo (Japan)
- European XFEL, Schenefeld (Germany)
- Friedrich-Schiller Univ. of Jena (Germany); Helmholtz Institute at Jena (Germany)
- Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1597231
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1507611
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-787896
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 981606; TRN: US2103059
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; SC0008827; NA0002075
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; high intensity laser-plasma interactions; high-energy-density plasmas; plasma production & heating by laser beams; laser-foil; laser-cluster
Citation Formats
Sawada, H., Sentoku, Y., Yabuuchi, T., Zastrau, U., Förster, E., Beg, F. N., Chen, H., Kemp, A. J., McLean, H. S., Patel, P. K., and Ping, Y. Monochromatic 2D Kα Emission Images Revealing Short-Pulse Laser Isochoric Heating Mechanism. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.155002.
Sawada, H., Sentoku, Y., Yabuuchi, T., Zastrau, U., Förster, E., Beg, F. N., Chen, H., Kemp, A. J., McLean, H. S., Patel, P. K., & Ping, Y. Monochromatic 2D Kα Emission Images Revealing Short-Pulse Laser Isochoric Heating Mechanism. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.155002
Sawada, H., Sentoku, Y., Yabuuchi, T., Zastrau, U., Förster, E., Beg, F. N., Chen, H., Kemp, A. J., McLean, H. S., Patel, P. K., and Ping, Y. Thu .
"Monochromatic 2D Kα Emission Images Revealing Short-Pulse Laser Isochoric Heating Mechanism". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.155002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1597231.
@article{osti_1597231,
title = {Monochromatic 2D Kα Emission Images Revealing Short-Pulse Laser Isochoric Heating Mechanism},
author = {Sawada, H. and Sentoku, Y. and Yabuuchi, T. and Zastrau, U. and Förster, E. and Beg, F. N. and Chen, H. and Kemp, A. J. and McLean, H. S. and Patel, P. K. and Ping, Y.},
abstractNote = {The rapid heating of a thin titanium foil by a high intensity, subpicosecond laser is studied by using a 2D narrow-band x-ray imaging and x-ray spectroscopy. Here, a novel monochromatic imaging diagnostic tuned to 4.51 keV Ti Kα was used to successfully visualize a significantly ionized area ( < Z > >17±1) of the solid density plasma to be within a ~35 μm diameter spot in the transverse direction and 2 μm in depth. The measurements and a 2D collisional particle-in-cell simulation reveal that, in the fast isochoric heating of solid foil by an intense laser light, such a high ionization state in solid titanium is achieved by thermal diffusion from the hot preplasma in a few picoseconds after the pulse ends. The shift of Kα and formation of a missing Kα cannot be explained with the present atomic physics model. The measured Kα image is reproduced only when a phenomenological model for the Kα shift with a threshold ionization of < Z > =17 is included. This work reveals how the ionization state and electron temperature of the isochorically heated nonequilibrium plasma are independently increased.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.155002},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 15,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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