• DocumentCode
    422390
  • Title

    Resonant heating of a cluster plasma by intense laser light

  • Author

    Taguchi, Tomoko ; Antosen, T.M. ; Gupta, Arpan ; Milchberg, H.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Res. in Elctronics & Appl. pHys., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    Cluster heating by a strong laser field is studied using a particle-in-cell code (PIC) for a range of intensities and cluster sizes. Above a threshold intensity, heating is dominated by a nonlinear resonant absorption process.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; plasma heating by laser; plasma light propagation; plasma simulation; cluster plasma heating; intense laser light; nonlinear resonant absorption process; particle-in-cell code;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1361898