• DocumentCode
    2435813
  • Title

    Trapped light bullets into a thermonuclear plasma corresponding to the inertial confinement fusion

  • Author

    Félix, José ; Blázquez, Miramar

  • Author_Institution
    Area de Ing. Nucl., Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    15-19 June 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    In this work the cause of the trapped light bullets has been studied. This phenomenon has received a great deal of attention due to its applications to laser fusion in the experiments of laser-plasma interaction into the field of inertial confinement fusion (ICF). The experiments are related to light boring through dense materials. The generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) gives the solution for the propagation of intense light waves through an inhomogeneus plasma with an appropriate dispersion relation. It has been showed that it was possible localized stationary solutions of a special type of nonlinear Schrodinger equation, for azimuthally polarized electromagnetic waves propagating in z direction , having in mind that the Maxwell equations must have a divergence of electric field not null due to presence of sources. We obtain a solution in two dimensions in cylindrical geometry corresponding to azimuthal and axial direction, corresponding to the normalized azimuthal electric field that is the cause of confinement of light bullet.
  • Keywords
    Schrodinger equation; laser fusion; plasma light propagation; Maxwell equations; inertial confinement fusion; laser fusion; laser-plasma interaction; nonlinear Schrodinger equation; thermonuclear plasma; trapped light bullets; Electromagnetic propagation; Inertial confinement; Laser applications; Laser fusion; Nonuniform electric fields; Optical materials; Optical propagation; Plasma applications; Plasma confinement; Schrodinger equation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Plasma Science, 2008. ICOPS 2008. IEEE 35th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Karlsruhe
  • ISSN
    0730-9244
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1929-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0730-9244
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PLASMA.2008.4590694
  • Filename
    4590694