
Laser-Plasma Interactions 4
M.B Hooper(Editor)
Institute of Physics Publishing
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1989
Book
Hardback
394 pages
978-0-905945-18-7 (ISBN)
Description
Laser-Plasma Interactions 4 is the fourth book in a series devoted to the study of laser-plasma interactions. Subjects covered include laser light propagation, instabilities, compression and hydrodynamics, spectroscopy, diagnostics, computer code, dense plasmas, high-power lasers, X-UV sources and lasers, beat waves, and transport processes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
763 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-905945-18-7 (9780905945187)
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Laser-Plasma Interactions 4
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Person
Dr M B Hooper, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 ONG, Scotland, UK.
Content
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS AND APPLICATIONS OF LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS -- M H KEY -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. LASER FUSION -- Direct drive -- Indirect drive -- Comparison of inertial fusion and magnetic fusion Future facilities -- 2. DENSE PLASMAS -- 3. HIGH INTENSITY LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS -- 4. PARTICLE ACCELERATORS Wake field acceleration -- 5. XUV AND X-RAY SOURCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS -- 6. XUV AND X-RAY LASERS -- 7. PARTICLE SOURCES -- 8. DEVELOPMENTS IN LASER TECHNOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- LASER LIGHT PROPAGATION AND INTERACTION WITH PLASMA -- P. MULSER -- 1. CAPACITOR MODEL OF RESONANCE ABSORPTION -- 1.1 Linear resonance absorption -- 1.2 High amplitude electron waves and wavebreaking -- 2. ABSORPTION OF INTENSE fs LASER PULSES -- 2.1 Plasma parameters and the problem of absorption -- 2.2 Collision frequency under strong drift conditions -- Excitation of plasma oscillations by a single fast particle -- Collision frequencies -- Screening and statistical independence -- 2.3 Anomalous skin effect -- 2.4 Ionisation dephasing -- 3. WAVE ACTION AND PROPAGATION IN MODULATED PLASMAS -- 3.1 Generalized ponderomotive action on single particles -- 3.2 Light propagation in periodically modulated plasmas REFERENCES -- LASER-INDUCED RADIATION HYDRODYNAMICS: AN INTRODUCTION -- R. SIGEL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RADIATIVE TRANSPORT -- 2.1 Radiation confinement -- 2.2 The hydrodynamic equations -- 2.3 The transport'of energy by radiation 2.4 The maximum opacity theorem -- 3. SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTIONS -- 3.1 The Buckingham theorem and self-similarity -- 3.2 The isothermal rarefaction wave as an example of self-similar gas motion -- 3.3 The radiation driven ablative heat wave -- 4. EXPERIMENTS REFERENCES -- LASER- DRIVEN INSTABILITIES IN LONG SCALELENGTH PLASMAS - II -- W L KRUER -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING -- 3. EFFECT OF ION FLUCTUATIONS ON SRS -- 4. LASER BEAM FILAMENTATION -- 5. LASER BEAM SMOOTHING -- 6. SUMMARY REFERENCES -- SPECTROSCOPY AND ATOMIC PHYSI