Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
2011-08-04
Physics
Plasma Physics
Oral contribution O3.205 delivered at the 38th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Strasbourg, France, 26 June - 1 July, 2011
Scientific paper
The derivation is presented of the nonlinear equations that describe the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in a plasma, in the Plasmon-X device. It is shown that the Plasmon-X scheme used for the electron acceleration uses a sufficiently broad beam ($L_\bot\sim 130\,\,\mu{\rm m}$) that justifies the use of the standard stationary 1-D approximation in the electron hydrodynamic equations, since the pulse width is sufficiently bigger than the pulse length ($\sim 7.5\,\,\mu{\rm m}$). Furthermore, with the laser power of $W\leq 250$ TW and the $130\,\,\mu{\rm m}$ spot size, the dimensionless laser vector potential is sufficiently small $|A_{\bot_0}|^2/{2} = ({W}/{c^2\epsilon_0})({\lambda^2}/{8 \pi^2 c})({4}/{\pi L_\bot^2})({e}/{m_0 c})^2 \sim 0.26$, the nonlinearity is sufficiently weak to allow the power expansion in the nonlinear Poissons's equation. Such approximation yields a nonlinear Schr\" odinger equation with a reactive nonlocal nonlinear term. The nonlocality contains a cosine function under the integral, indicating the oscillating wake. For a smaller spot size that is used for the Thomson scattering, $L_\bot = 10\,\, \mu$m, the length and the width of the pulse are comparable, and it is not possible to use the 1-D approximation in the hydrodynamic equations. With such small spot size, the laser intensity is very large, and most likely some sort of chanelling in the plasma would take place (the plasma gets locally depleted so much that the electromagnetic wave practically propagates in vacuum).
de Nicola Sergio
Fedele Renato
Jovanovic Dusan
Tanjia Fatema
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