The jets driven by magnetic reconnection in laser-plasma interactions are investi- gated experimentally. The diagnostics in the optical and X-ray ranges provide detailed information about the jet characteristics. The plasma jets perpendicular to and along the target surface are observed clearly, which is evident signatures of laser driven magnetic reconnection. The jet formation is also investigated for different experimental parameters.
A new method based on a chirped optical pulse interferogram has been proposed to measure terahertz radiation. The frequency domain phase information of the interferogram is used to extract the time-domain terahertz pulse waveform. In principle, the resolution of our method can be as high as the unchirped probe pulse duration, with the advantages of relatively simple measurement setup and signal extracting techniques.
Irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses with different energies, opened cone targets behave very differently in the transmission of incident laser pulses. The targets, each with an opening angle of 71° and an opening of 5 μm, are fabricated using standard semiconductor technology. When the incident laser energy is low and no pre-plasma is generated on the side walls of the cones, the cone target acts like an optical device to reflect the laser pulse, and 15% of the laser energy can be transmitted through the cones. In contrast, when the incident laser energy is high enough to generate pre-plasmas by the pre-pulse of the main pulse that fills the inner cone, the cone with the plasmas will block the transmission of the laser, which leads to a decrease in laser transmission compared with the low-energy case with no plasma. Simulation results using optical software in the low-energy case, and using the particle-in-cell code in the high-energy case, are primarily in agreement with the experimental results.
LIU FengLIN XiaoxuanLIU BichengDING WenjunDU FeiLI YutongMA JinglongLIU XiaolongSHENG ZhengmingCHEN LimingLU XinDONG QuanliWANG WeiminWANG ZhaohuaWEI ZhiyiCHEN JiaerZHANG Jie
A powerful terahertz(THz) pulse was produced by a p-polarized,70 fs,800 nm laser interacting with solid targets at an incident angle of 45°.The polarization of the THz emission was measured out of the laser incident plane.The results showed that it was linearly polarized.We established a surface current model to explain this phenomenon,assuming that the transient current moving along the plasma surface was responsible for the generation of the THz emission.The model expectation and the experimental result were in good agreement.
DU FeiLI ChunZHOU MuLinWANG WeiMinSU LuNingZHENG YiLI YuTongMA JingLongSHENG ZhengMingCHEN LiMingLU XinWANG ZhaoHuaWEI ZhiYiZHANG Jie
