2024
DOI: 10.1063/5.0189559
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Shock formation in flowing plasmas by temporally and spatially smoothed laser beams

J. D. Ludwig,
S. Hüller,
H. A. Rose
et al.

Abstract: The cumulative impact of multiple laser speckles on a supersonic plasma flow across optically smoothed laser beams is investigated. The bending of laser beams caused by ponderomotive laser–plasma coupling, together with flow, leads to plasma a momentum-conserving response that results in a deceleration of the flow. Once the flow velocity decreases to a subsonic level, the action of the laser beams can generate a shock within the plasma. This scenario has been predicted theoretically and confirmed by hydrodynam… Show more

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