Interaction of High Intensity Electromagnetic Waves with Plasmas

[摘要] The focus of our work during the duration of this grant was on the following areas: (a) the fundamental plasma physics of intense laser-plasma interactions, including the nonlinear excitation of plasma waves for accelerator applications, as well as the recently discovered by us phenomenon of the relativistic bi-stability of relativistic plasma waves driven by a laser beatwave; (b) interaction of high power microwave beams with magnetized plasma, including some of the recently discovered by us phenomena such as the Undulator Induced Transparency (UIT) as well as the new approaches to dynamic manipulation of microwave pulses; (c) investigations of the multi-color laser pulse interactions in the plasma, including the recently discovered by us phenomenon of Electromagnetic Cascading (EC) and the effect of the EC of three-dimensional dynamics of laser pulses (enhanced/suppressed selffocusing etc.); (d) interaction of high-current electron beams with the ambient plasma in the context of Fast Ignitor (FI) physics, with the emphasis on the nonlinear dynamics of the Weibel instability and beam filamentation.

[发布日期] 2008-10-03

[学科分类] 原子、分子光学和等离子物理

[关键词] ACCELERATORS;ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION;ELECTRON BEAMS;EXCITATION;INSTABILITY;LASERS;PHYSICS;PLASMA;PLASMA WAVES;RELATIVISTIC PLASMA;WIGGLER MAGNETS laser-plasma;accelerator;microwave beams;magnetized plasma