Transient electric fields in laser plasmas observed by proton streak deflectometry

Autor: Sokollik, T., Schnuerer, M., Ter-Avetisyan, S., Nickles, P. V., Risse, E., Kalashnikov, M., Sandner, W., Priebe, G., Amin, M., Toncian, T., Willi, O., Andreev, A. A.
Rok vydání: 2008
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/1.2890057
Popis: A novel proton imaging technique was applied which allows a continuous temporal record of electric fields within a time window of several nanoseconds. This "proton streak deflectometry" was used to investigate transient electric fields of intense (~ 10^17 W/cm^2) laser irradiated foils. We found out that these fields with an absolute peak of up to 10^8 V/m extend over millimeter lateral extension and decay at nanosecond duration. Hence, they last much longer than the (~ ps) laser excitation, and extend much beyond the laser irradiation focus.
Databáze: arXiv