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Introduction to Laser-Plasma Interactions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Introduction to Laser-Plasma Interactions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Graduate Texts in Physics
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This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics
of laser-plasma interactions (LPI), based on a graduate course
taught by the author. The emphasis is on high-energy-density
physics (HEDP) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF), with a
comprehensive description of the propagation, absorption, nonlinear
effects and parametric instabilities of high energy lasers in
plasmas. The recent demonstration of a burning plasma on the verge
of nuclear fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility in
Livermore, California, has marked the beginning of a new era of ICF
and fusion research. These new developments make LPI more relevant
than ever, and the resulting influx of new scientists necessitates
new pedagogical material on the subject. In contrast to the
classical textbooks on LPI, this book provides a complete
description of all wave-coupling instabilities in unmagnetized
plasmas in the kinetic as well as fluid pictures, and includes a
comprehensive description of the optical smoothing techniques used
on high-power lasers and their impact on laser-plasma
instabilities. It summarizes all the key developments from the
1970s to the present day in view of the current state of LPI and
ICF research; it provides a derivation of the key LPI metrics and
formulas from first principles, and connects the theory to
experimental observables. With exercises and plenty of
illustrations, this book is ideal as a textbook for a course on
laser-plasma interactions or as a supplementary text for graduate
introductory plasma physics course. Students and researchers will
also find it to be an invaluable reference and self-study resource.
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