Absorption and Transport Effects Induced in Plasmas by the Interaction of Electrons with Laser Speckles.
Physical review letters(2022)
Abstract
We show that the ponderomotive force associated with laser speckles can scatter electrons in a laser-produced plasma in a manner similar to Coulomb scattering. Analytic expressions for the effective collision rates are given. The electron-speckle collisions become important at high laser intensity or during filamentation, affecting both long- and short-pulse laser intensity regimes. As an example, we find that the effective collision rate in the laser-overlap region of hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility is expected to exceed the Coulomb collision rate by 1 order of magnitude, leading to a fundamental change to the electron transport properties. At the high intensities characteristic of short-pulse laser-plasma interactions (I≳10^{17} W cm^{-2}), the scattering is strong enough to cause the direct absorption of laser energy, generating hot electrons with energy scaling as E≈1.44(I/10^{18} W cm^{-2})^{1/2} MeV, close to experimentally observed results.
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Key words
plasmas,electrons,absorption,laser,transport effects
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