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Parametric generation of surface deformations in laser interaction with overdense plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2002

A. MACCHI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi” and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), sezione A, Via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
M. BATTAGLINI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi” and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), sezione A, Via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
F. CORNOLTI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi” and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), sezione A, Via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
T.V. LISSEIKINA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi” and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), sezione A, Via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
F. PEGORARO
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi” and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), sezione A, Via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
H. RUHL
Affiliation:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
V.A. VSHIVKOV
Affiliation:
Institute of Computational Technologies of SD-RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract

By analytical modeling and numerical simulation, we show that surface modes in moderately overdense plasmas may be excited parametrically by an intense, ultrashort laser pulse. This process has a feedback effect on fast electron generation and may seed a fast distortion of plasma “moving mirrors.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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