The Physics of Laser Plasma Interactions
By W. Kruer. 2019
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Based on a graduate course in plasma physics taught at University of California, Davis, this classic book provides a concise overview and a physically-motivated treatment of the major plasma processes which determine the interaction of intense light waves with plasmas. It also includes a discussion of basic plasma concepts, plasma simulation using particle codes, and laser plasma experiments. This is the most elementary book currently available that successfully blends theory, simulation, and experiment, and presents a clear exposition of the major physical processes involved in laser-plasma interactions. This was also the first book on the topic by anyone involved in the United States Laser Fusion Program. Dr. Kruer has more than 30 years of active participation in this field.
Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials
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Citations in the corpus
- Extreme states of matter on Earth and in space (2009, background): “Beginning with q > 10(14) W cmÿ2 (for l 1 mm), the pressure amplitudes of laser-driven shock waves pass into the megabar range [14, 23, 24, 26, 27] in accordance with the scaling law p TPa 0:87ÿq W cmÿ2 2=3 ÿl mm ÿ2=3 ;”
- Developments in laser-driven plasma accelerators (2013, background): “The wakefield is driven by the ponderomotive force, which is the time-averaged force experienced by a charged particle as it moves in the fields of an electromagnetic pulse [1, 10, 11].”
- Intense terahertz radiation and their applications (2016, background): “It is well known that an electromagnetic wave can convert into an electrostatic wave through linear mode conversion, which leads to the resonance absorption of light in inhomogeneous plasmas [98, 99].”