Min Sup Hur

We augment the usual three-wave cold-fluid equations governing Raman backscatter (RBS) with a new kinetic thermal correction, proportional to an average of particle kinetic energy weighted by the ponderomotive phase. From closed-form analysis within a homogeneous kinetic three-wave model and ponderomotively averaged kinetic simulations in a more realistic pulsed case, the magnitude of these new contributions is shown to be a measure of the dynamical detuning between the pump laser, seed laser, a

Emission of radiation from electrons undergoing plasma oscillations (POs) at the plasma frequency has attracted interest because of the existence of intriguing and non-trivial coupling mechanism between the electrostatic PO and the emitted electromagnetic wave. While broadband emission from plasma waves in inhomogeneous plasma is well known, the underlying physics of narrowband emission at the plasma frequency observed in experiments and in solar radio-bursts is obscure. Here we show that a spat

A new mechanism for electromagnetic emission in the terahertz (THz) frequency regime from laserplasma interactions is described.A localized and long-lasting transverse current is produced by two counter-propagating short laser pulses in weakly magnetized plasma.We show that the electromagnetic wave radiating from this current source, even though its frequency is close to cut-off of the ambient plasma, grows and diffuses towards the plasma-vacuum boundary, emitting a strong monochromatic THz wave

A typical laser-plasma accelerator (LPA) is driven by a single, ultrarelativistic laser pulse from terawatt- or petawatt-class lasers. Recently, there has been some theoretical work on the use of copropagating two-color laser pulses (CTLP) for LPA research. Here, we demonstrate the first LPA driven by CTLP where we observed substantial electron energy enhancements. Those results have been further confirmed in a practical application, where the electrons are used in a bremsstrahlung-based positro

Abstract We propose a new method of compressing laser pulses to ultrahigh powers based on spatially varying dispersion of an inhomogeneous plasma. Here, compression is achieved when a long, negatively frequency-chirped laser pulse reflects off the density ramp of an over-dense plasma slab. As the density increases longitudinally, high-frequency photons at the leading part of the laser pulse penetrate more deeply into the plasma region than lower-frequency photons, resulting in pulse compression

We present two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of laser wakefield electron acceleration up to 1.1 GeV over a-few-millimeter-long plasma with the help of density tapering. We observed that, in a uniform plasma, the electron beam reaches the dephasing state not only by the slow phase velocity of the wakefield but also by the relativistic prolonging of the plasma wavelength. Such a dephasing between the wakefield and beam can be mitigated by an upward density taper. By employing a paraboli

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), a phenomenon well known in atomic systems, has a natural analogy in a classical magnetized plasma. The magnetized plasma has a resonance for right-hand polarized electromagnetic waves at the electron cyclotron frequency Ω0, so that a probe wave with frequency ω1=Ω0 cannot propagate through the plasma. The plasma can be made transparent to such a probe by the presence of a pump wave. The pump may be an electromagnetic wave or magnetostatic wiggler.

A numerical code based on an eikonal formalism has been developed to simulate laser-plasma interactions, specifically Raman backscatter (RBS). In this code, the dominant laser modes are described by their wave envelopes, avoiding the need to resolve the laser frequency; appropriately time-averaged equations describe particle motion. The code is fully kinetic, and thus includes critical physics such as particle trapping and Landau damping which are beyond the scope of the commonly used fluid thre

The effective secondary electron emission coefficient (SEEC) in a plasma display panel (PDP) is estimated by comparing the Paschen breakdown curves from simulations with the experiment. It is found that the effective SEEC in PDP is dependent on the ratio of electric field to pressure. The estimated values are 0.59/spl sim/0.79 for the pure Ne and 0.1/spl sim/0.13 for the Ne-Xe (96/4) mixture, respectively.

We present a novel scheme to obtain robust, narrowband, and tunable THz emission using a nano-dimensional overdense plasma target, irradiated by two counter-propagating detuned laser pulses. So far, no narrowband THz sources with a field strength of GV/m-level have been reported from laser-solid interaction (mostly half-or single-cycle THz pulses with only broadband frequency spectrum). From two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we find that the strong plasma current generated

We studied and demonstrated the emission of THz waves by the beating of two CW-laser beams in an axially modulated plasma in the presence of a static magnetic field (applied transversely to the direction of propagation of lasers) from two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation. The ponderomotive-force-induced nonlinear current drives THz radiation with frequency close to the beat frequency (Δω = ω1 − ω2) that propagates in the forward direction. Inside the plasma, THz radiation consists of a mi

Nonlinear phenomena in a driven plasma diode are studied using a fluid code and the particle-in-cell simulation code xpdp1. When a uniform electron beam is injected to a bounded diode filled with uniform ion background, the beam is destabilized by the Pierce instability and a perturbation grows to exhibit nonlinear oscillations including chaos. Two standard routes to chaos, period doubling and quasiperiodicity, are observed. Mode lockings of various winding numbers are observed in an ac driven s

The effects of the longitudinal pulse width were studied in Raman backward amplification (RBA) of laser pulses in plasmas. In RBA systems, which utilize Raman backscatter in plasmas, it is generally required that a long pump laser pulse, whose longitudinal pulse duration is typically tens of picoseconds, propagates more than a few millimetres of gas jet or capillary plasmas. However, from the experimental point of view, a short propagation distance of the pump pulse is more desirable to avoid va

We studied the THz radiation generated by a beam-plasma system using two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The Langmuir waves excited by two counterpropagating electron beams, via two-stream instability, collide with each other at an oblique angle, which forms a high beam-density modulation near the collision region, where both beam electrons become trapped. As a result, spatially localized Langmuir wave packets with large longitudinal-electric field amplitudes are formed, whi