Modeling of plasma behavior in a plasma electrode Pockels cell

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 713-726

  Boley, Charles D ^a   Rhodes, Mark A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CATHODES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHBOARDS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA SHEATHS;

ELECTROOPTIC SWITCHES; PLASMA ELECTRODE POCKELS CELLS; POCKELS EFFECT;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0032663318     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.774676     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. J. Goldhar and M. A. Henesian, "Electro-optical switches with plasma electrodes," Opt. Lett., vol. 9, pp. 73-75, 1984.
2. "Large-aperture electrooptical switches with plasma electrodes," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. QE-22, pp. 1137-1147, 1986.
3. M. A. Rhodes, B. Woods, J. J. DeYoreo, D. Roberts, and L. J. Atherton, "Performance of large-aperture optical switches for high-energy ICF lasers," Appl. Opt., vol. 34, pp. 5312-5325, 1995.
4. M. A. Rhodes, C. D. Boley, A. G. Tarditi, and B. S. Bauer, "Plasma electrode Pockels cell for ICF," in 1st Annu. Int. Conf. Solid State Lasers for Application to ICF, SPIE, vol. 2633, pp. 94-103, 1995.
5. K.-B. Persson, "Inertia-controlled ambipolar diffusion," Phys. Fluids, vol. 5, pp. 1625-1632, 1962.
6. K.-U. Riemann, "The Bohm criterion and sheath formation," J. Phys. D, vol. 24, pp. 493-518, 1991
7. I. I. Beilis, M. Keidar, and S. Goldsmith, "Plasma-wall transition: The influence of the electron to ion current ratio on the magnetic presheath structure," Phys. Plasmas, vol. 4, pp. 3461-3468, 1997.
8. N. A. Krall and A. W. Trivelpiece, Principles of Plasma Physics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973
9. M. A. Lieberman and A. J. Lichtenberg, Principles of Plasma Discharges and Materials Processing. New York: Wiley, 1994.
10. P. N. Brown, A. C. Hindmarsh, and L. R. Petzold, "Using Krylov methods in the solution of large-scale differential-algebraic systems," SIAM J. Sei. Comput., vol. 15, pp. 1467-1488, 1994.
11. An earlier version of this model was presented in C. D. Boley and M. A. Rhodes, "Model of the influence of magnetic fields on a plasma electrode Pockels cell," in 2nd Annu. Int. Conf. Solid State Lasers for Application to ICF, 1996, SPIE, vol. 3047, pp. 672-679.
12. S. N. Fochs, M. Rhodes, and C. Boley, "B-Field interactions and electrode optimization in the plasma electrode Pockels cell," in 2nd Annu. Int. Conf. Solid State Lasers for Application to ICF, 1996, SPIE, vol. 3047, pp. 680-691.
13. R. K. Janev, W. D. Langer, K. Evans, Jr., and D. E. Post, Jr., Elementary Processes in Hydrogen-Helium Plasmas. Berlin: SpringerVerlag, 1987.
14. Y. Itikawa, "Momentum-transfer cross sections for electron collisions with atoms and molecules," in Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, vol. 21, pp. 69-75, 1978.