Berlin 2001 – scientific programme
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P: Plasmaphysik
P 6: Discharges
P 6.7: Talk
Thursday, April 5, 2001, 18:10–18:25, 2053
Numerical simulation of electromagnetic soliton generation and their observation by means of laser-generated proton beams — •Hartmut Ruhl1, Marco Borghesi2, Natalia Naumova1, Oswald Willi3, Peter Mulser4, Francesco Pegoraro5, and Sergei Bulanov6 — 1Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Straße 2a, 12489 Berlin — 2Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN — 3Plasma Physics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BZ — 4Theoretische Quanteneleketronik, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstraße 4a, 64289 Darmstadt — 5Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Sez.2, Piazza Torricelli 1, I-56125 Pisa, Italy — 6General Physics Institute RAS, Vavilov Street 38,117942 Moscow, Russia
Short intense laser radiation is capable of generating electromagnetic solitary structures close to the pulse depletion length. Their number and localization in the plasma depends on the particular choice of the plasma pulse parameters. Numerical results on soliton generation in two and three spatial dimensions for a number of different parameters are presented. Proton images of the post-soliton structures are calculated and compared with recent experiments.