AIP Advances (Mar 2017)

Dynamic high pressure generation through plasma implosion driven by an intense laser pulse

  • M. Li,
  • J. X. Wang,
  • T. Yuan,
  • Y. X. Xu,
  • W. J. Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4975633
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 3
pp. 035007 – 035007-5

Abstract

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When an intense laser pulse is loaded upon solids, very high impact pressure can be generated on the surface. In this letter, we simulate this process through one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation and find that the pressure as high as 0.13 TPa can be generated after the laser pulse with intensity 1015 W/cm2 and 5 picosecond duration is injected upon a nanometer solid-density plasma. The peak pressure is shown to be resulted from an energetic high-density plasma bunch, produced through plasma implosion under extremely high light pressure.