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Self-focusing of UV radiation in 1 mm scale plasma in a deep ablative crater produced by 100 ns, 1 GW KrF laser pulse in the context of ICF
摘要： Experiments at the GARPUN KrF laser facility and 2D simulations using the NUTCY code were performed to study the irradiation of metal and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) targets by 100 ns UV pulses at intensities up to 5 3 1012 W cm?2. In both targets, a deep crater of length 1 mm was produced owing to the 2D geometry of the supersonic propagation of the ablation front in condensed matter that was pushed sideways by a conical shock wave. Small-scale ?lamentation of the laser beam caused by thermal self-focusing of radiation in the crater-con?ned plasma was evidenced by the presence of a microcrater relief on the bottom of the main crater. In translucent PMMA, with a penetration depth for UV light of several hundred micrometers, a long narrow channel of length 1 mm and diameter 30 μm was observed emerging from the crater vertex. Similar channels with a length-to-diameter aspect ratio of ～1000 were produced by a repeated-pulse KrF laser in PMMA and fused silica glass at an intensity of ～109 W cm?2. This channel formation is attributed to the effects of radiation self-focusing in the plasma and Kerr self-focusing in a partially transparent target material after shallow-angle re?ection by the crater wall. Experimental modeling of the initial stage of inertial con?nement fusion-scale direct-drive KrF laser interaction with subcritical coronal plasmas from spherical and cone-type targets using crater-con?ned plasmas seems to be feasible with increased laser intensity above 1014 W cm?2.
关键词： fused silica glass,UV radiation,PMMA,KrF laser,plasma,ICF,self-focusing
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Laser-Induced Dissociation of the Monolayer of Adsorbed Methanol Molecules
摘要： Astronomical observations indicate a high abundance of methanol molecules in the gas phase of molecular-cloud dense cores, which cannot be explained by gas-phase chemical reactions only. A significant contribution to the methanol abundance should be provided by chemical reactions on the dust particle surface with subsequent desorption of the produced molecules into the gas phase. For the development and refinement of models involving these processes, laboratory studies of photo-induced processes occurring in the adsorbed material are necessary. In this paper, the experiment results of adsorbed methanol molecules are presented. A methanol molecule monolayer, physically adsorbed on fused silica surface cooled by liquid nitrogen (Т ～ 100 K), was irradiated in high vacuum by nanosecond pulses of an excimer KrF laser with a fixed wavelength λ = 248 nm. The photodissociation products of three-photon laser excitation were recorded by a quadrupole mass spectrometer. Relative yields of photofragments H, OH, and CH3 were determined. Photolysis of partially deuterated CH3OH molecules has shown that hydrogen atoms can be ejected both from hydroxyl and methyl groups. In contrast to the isolated molecule photolysis in the gas phase and dissociation of the multilayer molecular coatings, photoexcitation of adsorbed methanol monolayer even in the energy region of 10 eV does not cause noticeable chemical transformations and does not lead to the formation of molecular components H2 and CH4. Due to existing astrochemical modeling problems, possible application methods of the obtained laboratory results are considered.
关键词： chemical reactions,astronomical observations,adsorbed monolayer,mass spectrometry,photo-induced processes,gas phase,dust particle surface,KrF laser,photodissociation,methanol
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Spectral broadening of a KrF laser via propagation through Xe in the negative nonlinear index regime
摘要： In inertial con?nement (ICF) experiments at the NIKE laser facility, the high-power krypton ?uoride (KrF) laser output beams propagate through long (～75 m) air paths to achieve angular multiplexing, which is required because the KrF medium does not store energy for a suf?ciently long time. Recent experiments and simulations have shown that, via stimulated rotational Raman scattering, this propagation can spectrally broaden the laser beam well beyond the ～1 THz laser linewidth normally achieved by the induced spatial incoherence (ISI) technique used in NIKE. These enhanced bandwidths may be enough to suppress the laser-plasma instabilities which limit the maximum intensity that can be incident on the ICF target. In this paper we investigate an alternative technique that achieves spectral broadening by self-phase modulation in Xe gas, which has a large, negative nonlinear refractive index ～248 nm, and thus completely avoids transverse ?lamentation issues. The collective, nonlinear atomic response to the chaotic, nonsteady state ISI light is modeled using a two-photon vector model, and the effect of near-resonant behavior on the spectral broadening is studied.
关键词： self-phase modulation,laser-plasma instabilities,negative nonlinear index,KrF laser,spectral broadening,Xe gas
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52