Self-consistent calculations of short-pulse laser-heated plasma dynamics
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Laser and Particle Beams
- Vol. 1 (1) , 67-79
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0263034600000215
Abstract
A one-dimensional, time-dependent fluid code is presented that numerically solves the hydrodynamic equations together with the wave equation for a picosecond pulse laser heated plasma. The laser light absorption by classical inverse bremsstrahlung and the ponderomotive force are evaluated self-consistently from the computed electromagnetic field quantities. At oblique incidence of p-polarized 1·054 μm laser radiation the resonant electric field is saturated by plasma wave convection through the nonlinear density profile steepening prior to wave breaking.Keywords
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