DENSE AND RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS PRODUCED BY COMPACT HIGH-INTENSITY LASERS

Authors

Donald Umstadter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Shouyuan Chen, University of Michigan-Ann ArborFollow
G. Ma, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Anatoly Maksimchuk, University of MichiganFollow
G. Mourou, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
M. Nantel, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
S. Pikuz, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
G. Sarkisov, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
R. Wagner, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Date of this Version

4-1-2000

Comments

Dense and Relativistic Plasmas Produced by Compact High-Intensity Lasers,” Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 127, 513-518 (2000). Copyright 2000. Permission to use.

Abstract

High-intensity lasers interacting with plasmas are used to study processes in the laboratory that would otherwise only occur in astrophysics. These include relativistic plasmas, electron acceleration in ultrahigh Ðeld-gradient wake Ðelds, pressure ionization and continuum lowering in strongly coupled plasmas, and X-ray line emission via Raman scattering.