Heating of Plasma Focus by TEA CO2 Laser
Abstract
Dense focus plasma (1019 cm-3) is heated from 6 keV to 8 keV by the irradiation with a TEA CO2 laser pulse energy of 63 J. Time resolved measurement shows that the laser pulse duration is less or comparable with the containment time of the focus pinch plasma≈ 120 nsec, which enables the efficient laser energy absorption in the plasma.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- September 1976
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1976JPSJ...41.1081K
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Dense Plasmas;
- Laser Plasmas;
- Plasma Heating;
- Tea Lasers;
- Deuterium Plasma;
- Electron Energy;
- Focusing;
- Helium-Neon Lasers;
- Hydrogen Plasma;
- Mach-Zehnder Interferometers;
- Plasma Pinch;
- Plasma-Particle Interactions;
- Pulse Duration;
- Lasers and Masers