Abstract
When an intense laser pulse is loaded upon solids, very high impact pressure can be generated on the surface. In this letter, we simulate this process through one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation and find that the pressure as high as 0.13 TPa can be generated after the laser pulse with intensity 1015 W/cm2 and 5 picosecond duration is injected upon a nanometer solid-density plasma. The peak pressure is shown to be resulted from an energetic high-density plasma bunch, produced through plasma implosion under extremely high light pressure.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 035007 |
| Journal | AIP Advances |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 1 Mar 2017 |