Macroscopic evidence of soliton formation in multiterawatt laser-plasma interaction

被引：228

作者：

Borghesi, M ^{[1
]}

Bulanov, S

Campbell, DH

Clarke, RJ

Esirkepov, TZ

Galimberti, M

Gizzi, LA

MacKinnon, AJ

Naumova, NM

Pegoraro, F

Ruhl, H

Schiavi, A

Willi, O

机构：

[1] Queens Univ Belfast, Dept Pure & Appl Phys, Belfast, Antrim, North Ireland

[2] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Gen Phys, Moscow, Russia

[3] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, London, England

[4] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Cent Laser Facil, Chilton, England

[5] Moscow Inst Phys & Technol, Dolgoprudnyi, Russia

[6] CNR, Ist Fis Atom & Mol, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

[7] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

[8] Max Born Inst Quantenopt, Berlin, Germany

[9] Univ Pisa, Dept Phys, I-56100 Pisa, Italy

[10] INFM, I-56100 Pisa, Italy

[11] Univ Dusseldorf, Inst Laser & Plasmaphys, D-4000 Dusseldorf, Germany

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2002年 / 88卷 / 13期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.135002

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

A novel physical phenomenon has been observed following the interaction of an intense (10(19) W/cm(2)) laser pulse with an underdense plasma. Long-lived, macroscopic bubblelike structures have been detected through the deflection that the associated electric charge separation causes in a proton probe beam. These structures are interpreted as the remnants of a cloud of relativistic solitons generated in the plasma by the ultraintense laser pulse. This interpretation is supported by an analytical study of the soliton cloud evolution, by particle-in-cell simulations, and by a reconstruction of the proton-beam deflection.

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