Rapid self-magnetization of laser speckles in plasmas by nonlinear anisotropic instability

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Thomas, A G R ^a,b   Kingham, R J ^a   Ridgers, C P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE TIME; ELECTROMAGNETIC INSTABILITIES; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON PRESSURES; ELECTRON TRANSPORTS; FOKKER-PLANCK; HOHLRAUM; INVERSE BREMSSTRAHLUNGS; LASER SPECKLES; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; LINEAR GROWTHS; LINEAR POLARIZATIONS; MAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS; NON LOCALS; PLASMA EXPANSIONS; SELF MAGNETIZATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; UNDERDENSE PLASMAS;

ANISOTROPY; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS ABSORPTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMAS; POLARIZATION; SPECKLE;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 63849105378     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/3/033001     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Stamper J A and Ripin B H 1975 Faraday-rotation measurements of megagauss magnetic-fields in laserproduced plasmas Phys. Rev. Lett. 34 138- 41
2. Craxton R S and Haines M G 1975 Hot spots in laser plasmas Phys. Rev. Lett. 35 1336-9
3. Kingham R J and Bell A R 2002 Nonlocal magnetic-field generation in plasmas without density gradients Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 045004
4. Haines M G 2001 Generation of an axial magnetic field from photon spin Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 135005
5. Tidman D A and Shanny R A 1974 Field-generating thermal instability in laser-heated plasmas Phys. Fluids 17 1207-10
6. Brownell J H 1979 Magnetic-field generation in implosions due to nernst refrigeration Comments Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 4 131-8
7. Weibel E S 1959 Spontaneously growing transverse waves in a plasma due to an anisotropic velocity distribution Phys. Rev. Lett. 2 83-4
8. Romanov A Y, Silin V P and Uryupin S A 1997 Weibel instability associated with inverse bremsstrahlung absorption of intense electromagnetic radiation J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 84 687 93
9. Bendib A, Bendib K and Sid A 1997 Weibel instability due to inverse bremsstrahlung absorption Phys. Rev. E 55 7522 6
10. Ferrante G, Zarcone M and Uryupin S A 2001 Plasma electron kinetics in a weak high-frequency field and magnetic field amplification Phys. Rev. E 64 046408
11. Dubroca B, Tchong M, Charrier P, Tikhonchuk V T and Morreeuw J P 2004 Magnetic field generation in plasmas due to anisotropic laser heating Phys. Plasmas 11 3830 9
12. Morreeuw J P, Sangam A, Dubroca B, Charrier P and Tikhonchuk V T 2006 Electron temperature anisotropy modeling and its effect on anisotropy-magnetic field coupling in an underdense laser heated plasma J. Physique IV 133 295 300
13. Mochizuki T, Yabe T, Mima K, Yoshikawa K, Azechi H, Kikuchi A and Yamanaka C 1980 Ablation nonuniformity on laser irradiated pellet and collisional hot-electron filamentation Japan. J. Appl. Phys. 19 L645 8
14. Braginskii S I 1966 Transport processes in a plasma Rev. Plasma Phys. 1 205
15. Borghesi M, Mackinnon A J, Bell A R, Gaillard R and Willi O 1998 Megagauss magnetic field generation and plasma jet formation on solid targets irradiated by an ultraintense picosecond laser pulse Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 112 5
16. Froula D H et al 2007 Quenching of the nonlocal electron heat transport by large external magnetic fields in a laser-produced plasma measured with imaging thomson scattering Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 135001
17. Nilson P M et al 2006 Magnetic reconnection and plasma dynamics in two-beam laser-solid interactions Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 255001
18. Glenzer S H et al 1999 Thomson scattering from laser plasmas Proc. 40th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society (New Orleans, LA) vol 6 (New York: AIP) pp 2117-28
19. Thomson J J 1978 Stimulated raman scatter in laser fusion target chambers Phys. Fluids 21 2082 5
20. Kato Y, Mima K, Miyanaga N, Arinaga S, Kitagawa Y, Nakatsuka M and Yamanaka C 1984 Random phasing of high-power lasers for uniform target acceleration and plasma-instability suppression Phys. Rev. Lett. 53 1057 60
21. Voronich I N 2001 Spatiotemporal smoothing of a laser beam employing a dynamic plasma phase plate Quantum Electron. 31 970 2
22. Feugeas J-L, Nicolai Ph, Rieyre X, Schurtz G, Tikhonchuk V and Grech M 2008 Modeling of twodimensional effects in hot spot relaxation in laser-produced plasmas Phys. Plasmas 15 062701
23. Johnston T W 1960 Cartesian tensor scalar product and spherical harmonic expansions in Boltzmann's equation Phys. Rev. 1201103-11
24. Sangam A, Morreeuw J P and Tikhonchuk V T 2007 Anisotropic instability in a laser heated plasma Phys. Plasmas 14 053111
25. Kingham R J and Bell A R 2004 An implicit Vlasov-Fokker-Planck code to model non-local electron transport in 2-d with magnetic fields J. Comput. Phys. 194 1-34
26. Langdon A B 1980 Nonlinear inverse bremsstrahlung and heated-electron distributions Phys. Rev. Lett. 44 575-9
27. Brantov A V, Bychenkov V Y, Tikhonchuk V T and Rozmus W 1998 Nonlocal electron transport in laser heated plasmas Phys. Plasmas 5 2742-53
28. Ridgers C P, Kingham R J and Thomas A G R 2008 Magnetic cavitation and the reemergence of nonlocal transport in laser plasmas Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 075003
29. Epperlein E M 1985 A comparison of the kinetic and 2-electron fluid models of the collisional Weibel instability in laser-plasmas Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 27 1027-35
30. Ridgers C P, Thomas A G R, Kingham R J and Robinson A P L 2008 Transport in the presence of inverse bremsstrahlung heating and magnetic fields Phys. Plasmas 15 092311
31. Haines M G 1986 Magnetic-field generation in laser fusion and hot-electron transport Can. J. Phys. 64 912-9
32. Matte J P and Virmont J 1982 Electron heat transport down steep temperature gradients Phys. Rev. Lett. 49 1936-9