Shalloo, RJ, Arran, C, Corner, L 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3882-1272, Holloway, J, Jonnerby, J, Walczak, R, Milchberg, HM and Hooker, SM
(2018)
Hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized plasma channels.
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 97 (5).
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Abstract
We present experiments and numerical simulations which demonstrate that fully ionized, low-density plasma channels could be formed by hydrodynamic expansion of plasma columns produced by optical field ionization. Simulations of the hydrodynamic expansion of plasma columns formed in hydrogen by an axicon lens show the generation of 200 mm long plasma channels with axial densities of order ne(0)=1×1017cm−3 and lowest-order modes of spot size WM≈40μm. These simulations show that the laser energy required to generate the channels is modest: of order 1 mJ per centimeter of channel. The simulations are confirmed by experiments with a spherical lens which show the formation of short plasma channels with 1.5×1017cm−3≲ne(0)≲1×1018cm−3 and 61μm≳WM≳33μm. Low-density plasma channels of this type would appear to be well suited as multi-GeV laser-plasma accelerator stages capable of long-term operation at high pulse repetition rates.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | High intensity laser-plasma interactions, Laser wakefield acceleration, Light propagation, transmission & absorption, Plasma acceleration & new acceleration techniques, Plasma production & heating by laser beams, laser-foil, laser-cluster, Self-focusing & filamentation in plasmas |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2019 07:15 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:54 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.053203 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3037035 |
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