High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2019, 7 (1): 010000e2, Published Online: Jan. 16, 2019  

Reflection of intense laser light from microstructured targets as a potential diagnostic of laser focus and plasma temperature Download: 539次

Author Affiliations
1 Department of Physics SUPA, University of Strathclyde, G4 0NG, UK
2 Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
3 York Plasma Institute, University of York, YO10 5DD, UK
4 STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
Abstract
The spatial-intensity profile of light reflected during the interaction of an intense laser pulse with a microstructured target is investigated experimentally and the potential to apply this as a diagnostic of the interaction physics is explored numerically. Diffraction and speckle patterns are measured in the specularly reflected light in the cases of targets with regular groove and needle-like structures, respectively, highlighting the potential to use this as a diagnostic of the evolving plasma surface. It is shown, via ray-tracing and numerical modelling, that for a laser focal spot diameter smaller than the periodicity of the target structure, the reflected light patterns can potentially be used to diagnose the degree of plasma expansion, and by extension the local plasma temperature, at the focus of the intense laser light. The reflected patterns could also be used to diagnose the size of the laser focal spot during a high-intensity interaction when using a regular structure with known spacing.

J. Jarrett, M. King, R. J. Gray, N. Neumann, L. Döhl, C. D. Baird, T. Ebert, M. Hesse, A. Tebartz, D. R. Rusby, N. C. Woolsey, D. Neely, M. Roth, P. McKenna. Reflection of intense laser light from microstructured targets as a potential diagnostic of laser focus and plasma temperature[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2019, 7(1): 010000e2.

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