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Reflection and absorption of a high-power ultrashort laser pulse heating a solid-state target

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2005

V.A. ISAKOV ,
A.P. KANAVIN  and
S.A. URYUPIN
V.A. ISAKOV
Affiliation:
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
A.P. KANAVIN
Affiliation:
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
S.A. URYUPIN
Affiliation:
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract

Patterns of absorption and reflection of an ultrashort laser pulse by plasma with a solid-state density, which are realized in the mode of the normal skin effect, are studied. If the pulse power is so high to provide the electron heating during the time shorter than the reciprocal fundamental frequency, a nonlinear suppression of absorption takes place and the spectrum of the reflected radiation contains odd harmonics of the fundamental frequency.

Keywords

Absorption coefficientDense plasmaFemtosecond laser pulsesNormal skin affectOdd harmonics
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 315 - 319
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper was presented at the 28th ECLIM conference in Rome, Italy.

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