Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Measurement of Fast Ions

   1. Two New Charged-Particle Diagnostics for Laser-Fusion Experiments

      • D. C. Slater, F. J. Mayer

      Pages 603-618

   2. Multiwave Picosecond Laser Interferometry of CO2-Laser-Produced Plasmas

      • R. L. Carman, A. G. Engelhardt, N. Clabo

      Pages 619-638

   3. Generation and Suppression of Fast-Ions from a Laser-Plasma and Related Self-Focussing Effects

      • B. Luther-Davies, M. R. Siegrist, V. del Pizzo, J. L. Hughes

      Pages 639-656

   4. Fast Ion and Neutron Emission in CO2 Laser Irradiation of Solid Deuterium Targets

      • J. L. Bocher, J. P. Elie, J. Martineau, M. Rabeau, C. Patou

      Pages 657-675

   5. Measurement of High-Energy Charged Particles from Laser-Produced Plasmas

      • Tai Ho Tan, G. H. McCall, A. Williams, D. Giovanielli

      Pages 677-687

3. Instabilities and Magnetic Fields

   1. On the Diagnostic of Non-Linear Effects

      • J. L. Bobin

      Pages 689-708

   2. Laser Light Absorption and Harmonic Generation Due to Self-Generated Magnetic Fields

      • W. L. Kruer, K. G. Estabrook

      Pages 709-720

   3. Laser Radiation Forces: Generation of and Dependence on Magnetic Fields

      • J. A. Stamper

      Pages 721-735

   4. Measurements of Spontaneous Currents and Magnetic Fields in Laser-Produced Plasmas

      • Michel G. Drouet

      Pages 737-767

   5. Heat Transport in Spatially Fluctuating Laser-Generated D.C. Magnetic Fields

      • Claire Ellen Max, Wallace M. Manheimer, Jeffrey J. Thomson

      Pages 769-782

4. Nonlinear Radiative Forces and Relativistic Effects

   1. Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasmas

      • A. Y. Wong

      Pages 783-840

   2. The Nonlinear Force of Electrodynamic Laser-Plasma Interaction

      • Heinrich Hora

      Pages 841-875

   3. Numerical Calculations of Laser Interaction with Plasmas Including Momentum Transfer of the Nonlinear Forces

      • V. F. Lawrence, H. Hora

      Pages 877-889

   4. Wavelength-Dependent Phenomena in Nonlinear Laser-Plasma Interactions

      • Keith A. Brueckner

      Pages 891-911

   5. Relativistic Self-Focusing

      • E. L. Kane, H. Hora

      Pages 913-939

   6. Self-Focusing of Electromagnetic Beams in Plasmas: Some Recent Investigations

      • M. S. Sodha, V. K. Tripathi

      Pages 941-960

   7. Kinetic Energy of Laser Accelerated Charged Particles in a Plasma and the Possibility of Pair Production

      • Helmut Schwarz, Romualdo Tabensky

      Pages 961-980

   8. Relativistic Oscillations of Electrons in Laser Fields and Transfer of Energy and Momentum

      • M. B. Nicholson-Florence

      Pages 981-989

   9. Laser Accelerators

      • W. J. Willis

      Pages 991-997

Since the third Workshop on "Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena" in 1973, one area within the scope of this con­ ference received increased attention: laser fusion. This possi­ bility was emphasized in February 1977 in a Seminar on US energy policies at The Hartford Graduate Center by John F. O'Leary, Head of the Federal Energy Administration, who said that "by the year 2100, ••• laser fusion will be coming along, giving us a new age of choice". Efforts in research and development were stepped up to investigate new concepts of laser ignition of controlled nuclear reactions. Here, one expects no radioactive waste from fuel. The deuterium-tritium reaction - the only one which may be possible with magnetic field confinement in tokamaks - has a highly radio­ active tritium ~ycle, while, in principle, laser reactions are possible with pure deuterium, hydrogen-boron or others. The worldwide progress in laser compression was not only stim­ ulated by the energy crisis, but also by its advancements. In our first Workshop in 1969 F. F10ux of the French Limei1 Laboratories described his experiments, which led, only one month later, to the production of fusion neutrons in such large numbers as had not been achieved up to then (see appendix of Vol. I these Proceedings).

• electron
• fission
• fusion
• ion
• neutron
• nuclear fusion
• nuclear reaction
• radiation
• tokamak

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute, Troy, USA

  Helmut J. Schwarz

• The University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, Australia

  Heinrich Hora

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