Applications of nanosecond kilojoule lasers to the basic physics of waves in plasmas (Invited Paper)

Richard Paul Drake

doi:10.1117/12.60172

1 June 1992 Applications of nanosecond kilojoule lasers to the basic physics of waves in plasmas (Invited Paper)

Richard Paul Drake

Proceedings Volume 1627, Solid State Lasers III; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60172
Event: OE/LASE '92, 1992, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Plasmas can sustain many normal modes of oscillation (waves), including both electromagnetic and electrostatic modes. These waves can interact by a wide variety of linear and nonlinear mechanisms, including mode coupling, mixing, and instabilities. Furthermore, such mechanisms compete, so that a given wave might be absorbed, might mode convert, or might decay by one of several instabilities, depending upon the specific circumstances in which it is produced. Moreover, such waves are important in many applications, including for example laser fusion, x-ray lasers, plasma accelerators, and ionospheric heating. Laser-produced plasmas can provide an effective medium for the studies of such waves and the related mechanisms. New opportunities will be made possible by the advent of comparatively inexpensive nanosecond, kilojoule lasers. One can now contemplate affordable experiments, not limited by programmatic constraints, that could study such the basic physics of the waves in such plasmas with unprecedented precision and in unprecedented detail.

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Richard Paul Drake "Applications of nanosecond kilojoule lasers to the basic physics of waves in plasmas (Invited Paper)", Proc. SPIE 1627, Solid State Lasers III, (1 June 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60172

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