X-ray emission from an intense ultrashort pulse laser--aluminum target interaction

Robert W. Clark Jr.; Jack Davis; John Giuliani Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.167392

1 February 1994 X-ray emission from an intense ultrashort pulse laser--aluminum target interaction

Robert W. Clark Jr., Jack Davis, John Giuliani Jr.

Proceedings Volume 2012, Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167392
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The interaction of an intense subpicosecond laser pulse with a planar aluminum target is investigated to determine the characteristics of the evolving plasma. In particular, attention is focused on the emitted x-ray pulse, its spectra including K_(alpha ) emission, and intensity. The interaction is simulated with a non-LTE radiation hydrodynamics model self-consistently coupled to a Helmholtz wave equation describing the absorption of S- and P- polarized incident laser radiation. A fraction of the absorbed laser energy is redistributed and expended in fast electrons, which are transported and deposit their energy producing local heating, inner-shell atomic vacancies and K_(alpha ) radiation. The feasibility of creating conditions conducive to the formation of atomic population inversions leading to gain in selected K- and L-shell transitions is explored.

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Robert W. Clark Jr., Jack Davis, and John Giuliani Jr. "X-ray emission from an intense ultrashort pulse laser--aluminum target interaction", Proc. SPIE 2012, Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers II, (1 February 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167392

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