High-Power Laser-Plasma Interaction

Covers parametric instabilities, laser charged particle acceleration, surface plasmonics and free electron lasers in depth.

C. S. Liu (Author), V. K. Tripathi (Author), Bengt Eliasson (Author)

9781108480635, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 May 2019

400 pages
24.8 x 19.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.65 kg

The field of high-power laser-plasma interaction has grown in the last few decades, with applications ranging from laser-driven fusion and laser acceleration of charged particles to laser ablation of materials. This comprehensive text covers fundamental concepts including electromagnetics and electrostatic waves, parameter instabilities, laser driven fusion,charged particle acceleration and gamma rays. Two important techniques of laser proton interactions including target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA) and radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) are discussed in detail, along with their applications in the field of medicine. An analytical framework is developed for laser beat-wave and wakefield excitation of plasma waves and subsequent acceleration of electrons. The book covers parametric oscillator model and studies the coupling of laser light with collective modes.

Preface
Acknowledgement
Dedication
1. Introduction
2. Linear waves
3. Resonance absorption and Brunel absorption
4. Plasmonics: surface plasma wave and its coupling to laser
5. Motion in large amplitude EM wave: ponderomotive force and self-generated magnetic field
6. Laser electron acceleration
7. Laser acceleration of ions
8. Coherent radiation generation
9. Self -focusing and filamentation
10. Parametric instabilities in homogeneous plasma
11. Parametric instabilities in inhomogeneous plasma
12. Nonlinear Schrodinger equation
13. Vlasov and particle in cell simulations
14. Quantum electrodynamic effects in plasma
Reference
Index.

Subject Areas: Plasma physics [PHFP]