Non-ablative capillary z-pinch for plasma-based waveguide

Author: Kaiser J.   Liška M.   Samek O.   Egri T.   Ritucci A.   Reale A.   Tomassetti G.   Reale L.   Palladino L.   Kukhlevsky S.   Flora F.   Mezi L.   Faenov A.   Pikuz T.  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0011-4626

Source: Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Vol.55, Iss.1, 2005-01, pp. : 35-44

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Abstract

The conditions for the formations of plasma-based waveguide in non-ablative argon-filled capillary discharge are studied theoretically. The pinch dynamics is simulated using magneto-hydrodynamic code originally developed and utilized to find proper conditions for operation of capillary-discharge Ar+8 soft x-ray laser. The presented results show that the ablation-free capillary z-pinch provides conditions that are suitable for guiding of high-intensity laser pulses on the earlier stages of the plasma compression.