Y Abou-Ali et al 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 2855 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/37/14/002
Y Abou-Ali1, Q L Dong1, A Demir2,3, R E King1, G J Pert1 and G J Tallents1
Show affiliationsEHYBRID fluid and atomic physics code simulations are compared with experimentally measured Ne-like nickel x-ray laser output at 23.1 nm and emission from nickel and germanium plasmas produced by line focus irradiation into a pre-formed plasma with 1.2 ps pulses of 1.06 µm wavelength and peak irradiance 7 × 1015 W cm−2. A particle-in-cell (PIC) code is used to simulate the laser energy absorption and resulting electron energy distribution in the experiment. It is shown that some absorbed laser energy is distributed to fast electrons that do not produce collisional excitation of the population inversion.
52.65.Rr Particle-in-cell method
42.55.Vc X- and gamma-ray lasers
52.25.Os Emission, absorption, and scattering of electromagnetic radiation
52.38.Dx Laser light absorption in plasmas (collisional, parametric, etc.)
Issue 14 (28 July 2004)
Received 25 January 2004
Published 1 July 2004
Y Abou-Ali et al 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 2855
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