Progress in Plasma Processing of Materials, 1997

ISBN Print: 1-56700-093-2

Ultra Intense Laser Pulses Interaction with Plasmas

DOI: 10.1615/ITPPC-1996.190
pages 147-154

Abstract

The results of simulation of the ultra-intense laser pulses interaction with overdense plasma are presented. The effects of radiation propagation deep into plasma as well as long-living vortex formation, plasma boundary instability and the surface structures formation are obtained. The mechanisms of the wave field energy transformation into the overdense plasma energy are discussed.