Collisional shock waves induced by laser radiation pressure

Henis, Zohar; Eliezer, Shalom; Raicher, Erez

doi:10.1017/S0263034619000478

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Add to Basket

Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released

Journal Article

Collisional shock waves induced by laser radiation pressure

MPS-Authors

/persons/resource/persons206780

Raicher, Erez
Division Prof. Dr. Christoph H. Keitel, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

External Resource

No external resources are shared

Fulltext (restricted access)

There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.

Fulltext (public)

There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe

Supplementary Material (public)

There is no public supplementary material available

Citation

Henis, Z., Eliezer, S., & Raicher, E. (2019). Collisional shock waves induced by laser radiation pressure. Laser and Particle Beams, 37(3), 268-275. doi:10.1017/S0263034619000478.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-5022-A

Abstract

The formation of a collisional shock wave by the light pressure of a short-laser pulse at intensities in the range of 10(18)-10(23) W/cm(2) is considered. In this regime the thermodynamic parameters of the equilibrium states, before and after the shock transition, are related to the relativistic Rankine-Hugoniot equations. The electron and ion temperatures associated with these shock waves are calculated. It is shown that if the time scale of energy dissipation is shorter than the laser pulse duration a collisional shock is formed. The electrons and the ions in the shock-heated layer may have equal or different temperatures, depending on the laser pulse duration, the material density and the laser intensity. This shock wave may serve as a heating mechanism in a fast ignition scheme.