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Coulomb explosion of a cluster irradiated by a high intensity laser pulse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

T. ESIRKEPOV ,
R. BINGHAM ,
S. BULANOV ,
T. HONDA ,
K. NISHIHARA  and
F. PEGORARO
T. ESIRKEPOV
Affiliation:
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyi, Russia
R. BINGHAM
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Great Britain
S. BULANOV
Affiliation:
General Physics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
T. HONDA
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
K. NISHIHARA
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
F. PEGORARO
Affiliation:
Physical Department of Pisa University and INFM, Pisa, Italy
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Abstract

Clusters represent a new class of laser pulse targets which show both the properties of underdense and of overdense plasmas. We present analytical and numerical results (based on 2D- and 3D-PIC simulations) of the Coulomb explosion of the ion cloud that is formed when a cluster is irradiated by a high-intensity laser pulse. For laser pulse intensities in the range of 1021−1022 W/cm2, the laser light can rip electrons from atoms almost instantaneously and can create a cloud made of an electrically nonneutral plasma. Ions can then be accelerated up to high energy during the Coulomb explosion of the cloud.

Type
ULIA-1 CONFERENCE PAPERS
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 503 - 506
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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