Filamentation instability in two counter-streaming laser plasmas

The filamentation instability was observed in the interaction of two counter-streaming laser ablated plasma flows, which were supersonic, collisionless, and also closely relevant to astrophysical conditions. The plasma flows were created by irradiating a pair of oppositely standing plastic （CH） foils with Ins-pulsed laser beams of total energy of 1.7 kJ in two laser spots. With characteristics diagnosed in experiments, the calculated features of Weibel-type filaments are in good agreement with measurements.

激光等离子体相互作用中Weibel不稳定性

利用粒子模拟法对超强激光与等离子体相互作用中产生的Weibel不稳定性及其产生机制进行了详细的研究。给出不稳定性的线性色散关系和饱和磁场与各向异性参数之间的函数关系,发现Weibel不稳定性的存在使超强激光在等离子体中激发的自生磁场饱和,饱和自生磁场的存在使粒子速度分布在激光传播方向上表现出各向异性。讨论了Weibel不稳定性的线性和非线性饱和过程,对更好地理解快点火物理中自生磁场的产生、快电子输运等过程有重要意义。

Collisional effects on the current-filamentation instability in a dense plasma

The collisional current-filamentation instability (CFI) is studied for a nonrelativistic electron beam penetrating an infinite uniform plasma. It is analytically shown that the CFI is driven by the drift-anisotropy rather than the classical anisotropy of the beam and the background plasma. Therefore, collisional effects can either attenuate or enhance the CFI depending on the drift-anisotropy of the beam-plasma system. Numerical results are given for some typical parameters, which show that collisional effects cannot stabilize but enhance the CFI in a dense plasma. Thus, the CFI may play a dominant role in the fast electron transport and deposition relevant to the fast ignition scenario (FIS).

超强线极化激光在e-p等离子体中传播的成丝不稳定性

基于超强线极化激光在正负电子对(e-p)等离子体中的传播方程,讨论了相互作用过程中的成丝不稳定性。得到了电磁波的非线性色散关系和不稳定性增长率,并讨论了传播过程中激光强度和等离子体温度对成丝不稳定性的影响。结果表明,成丝不稳定性的强弱主要由相互作用的非线性效应与受有质动力作用后等离子体密度的减小之间的竞争所决定。

激光成丝不稳定性并行数值模拟研究

实现了三维非线性流体力学与激光传播耦合的并行数值模拟程序，用来研究高强度激光在稀疏等离子体中的激光成丝不稳定性。并行数值实验结果表明，该程序在64台处理机上取得了较好的并行加速比，且能定性模拟激光成丝现象。

激光在等离子体中成丝特性的数值模拟

用数值模拟方法研究激光在等离子体中成丝的发展过程及其特征参数对成丝的影响。模拟结果清晰地给出柱状成丝不稳定性的产生及发展。计算结果表明 :入射激光强度、入射激光波长及等离子体背景密度是影响会聚强度的重要因素。该结果与国外报道的理论和实验研究吻合 ,可为研究抑制成丝提供参考。

Filaments in high-speed counter-streaming plasma interactions driven by high-power laser pulses

Interactions of two counter-streaming plasmas driven by high power laser pulses are studied on Shenguang II laser facility.Filamentary structures were observed in the interaction region after the electrostatic shockwave decay.Theoretical analysis and observations indicate that the filaments are because of collisionless mechanisms,which are caused by the electromagnetic instability,such as the beam-Weibel instability.Collision experiments were also carried out for comparison and no filaments were generated.

Recent progress of laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers

Thanks to a rapid progress of high-power lasers since the birth of laser by T.H.Maiman in 1960,intense lasers have been developed mainly for studying the scientific feasibility of laser fusion.Inertial confinement fusion with an intense laser has attracted attention as a new future energy source after two oil crises in the 1970s and 1980s.From the beginning,the most challenging physics is known to be the hydrodynamic instability to realize the spherical implosion to achieve more than 1000 times the solid density.Many studies have been performed theoretically and experimentally on the hydrodynamic instability and resultant turbulent mixing of compressible fluids.During such activities in the laboratory,the explosion of supernova SN1987A was observed in the sky on 23 February 1987.The X-ray satellites have revealed that the hydrodynamic instability is a key issue to understand the physics of supernova explosion.After collaboration between laser plasma researchers and astrophysicists,the laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers was proposed and promoted around the end of the 1990s.The original subject was mainly related to hydrodynamic instabilities.However,after two decades of laboratory astrophysics research,we can now find a diversity of research topics.It has been demonstrated theoretically and experimentally that a variety of nonlinear physics of collisionless plasmas can be studied in laser ablation plasmas in the last decade.In the present paper,we shed light on the recent 10 topics studied intensively in laboratory experiments.A brief review is given by citing recent papers.Then,modeling cosmic-ray acceleration with lasers is reviewed in a following session as a special topic to be the future main topic in laboratory astrophysics research.

强激光部分离化等离子体成丝不稳定性

从部分离化等离子体和通常的全离化等离子体的差异是存在束缚电子出发 ,分析强激光在部分离化等离子体中的传播和折射指数 ,其束缚电子加强成丝不稳定性的发展 .对钕玻璃三倍频激光金靶等离子体的原子成丝不稳定性进行了计算和分析 .