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

Document Type

Article

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.