DOI

  • M. Schnürer
  • T. Sokollik
  • S. Steinke
  • P. V. Nickles
  • W. Sandner
  • T. Toncian
  • M. Amin
  • O. Willi
  • A. A. Andreev

Dilute plasmas surrounding mass-limited targets provide sufficient current for influencing strong fields, which are built up due to the interaction of an intense and ultrafast laser pulse. Such situation occurs, where evaporation of the target surface is present. The high-intensity laser pulse interacts with the quasi-isolated mass-limited target and the spatial wings of the intensity distribution account for ionization of the ambient plasma. A fast change of strong electrical fields following intense laser irradiation of water droplets (16 micron diameter) has been measured with proton imaging. An analytical model explains charge transport accounting for the observation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe 2nd International Conference on Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science - ULIS 2009
Pages111-114
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2nd International Conference on Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science - ULIS 2009 - Frascati, Italy
Duration: 24 May 200929 May 2009

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1209
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science - ULIS 2009
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFrascati
Period24/05/0929/05/09

    Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

    Research areas

  • Laser-ion acceleration, Laser-plasma interaction, Strong fields in plasmas

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