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Anticorrelation between Ion Acceleration and Nonlinear Coherent Structures from Laser-Underdense Plasma Interaction
In laser-plasma experiments, we observed that ion acceleration from the
Coulomb explosion of the plasma channel bored by the laser, is prevented when
multiple plasma instabilities such as filamentation and hosing, and nonlinear
coherent structures (vortices/post-solitons) appear in the wake of an
ultrashort laser pulse. The tailoring of the longitudinal plasma density ramp
allows us to control the onset of these insabilities. We deduced that the laser
pulse is depleted into these structures in our conditions, when a plasma at
about 10% of the critical density exhibits a gradient on the order of 250
{\mu}m (gaussian fit), thus hindering the acceleration. A promising
experimental setup with a long pulse is demonstrated enabling the excitation of
an isolated coherent structure for polarimetric measurements and, in further
perspectives, parametric studies of ion plasma acceleration efficiency.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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Short Intense Laser Pulse Collapse in Near-Critical Plasma
It is observed that the interaction of an intense ultra-short laser pulse
with an overdense gas jet results in the pulse collapse and the deposition of a
significant part of energy in a small and well localized volume in the rising
part of the gas jet, where the electrons are efficiently accelerated and
heated. A collisionless plasma expansion over 150 microns at a sub-relativistic
velocity (~c/3) has been optically monitored in time and space, and attributed
to the quasistatic field ionization of the gas associated to the hot electron
current. Numerical simulations in good agreement with the observations suggest
the acceleration in the collapse region of relativistic electrons, along with
the excitation of a sizeable magnetic dipole that sustains the electron current
over several picoseconds. Perspectives of ion beam generation at high
repetition rate directly from gas jets are discussed
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