Observation of solid-density laminar plasma transparency to intense 30 femtosecond laser pulses

D. Giulietti; L. A. Gizzi; A. Giulietti; A. Macchi; D. Teychenné; A. Rousse; G. Cheriaux; J. P. Chambaret; G. Darpentigny

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3194

Observation of solid-density laminar plasma transparency to intense 30 femtosecond laser pulses

D. Giulietti
, L. A. Gizzi
, A. Giulietti
, A. Macchi
, D. Teychenné
, A. Rousse
, G. Cheriaux
, J. P. Chambaret
, G. Darpentigny

Ev-K2-CNR Committee
Laboratory d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS-École Polytechnique

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Abstract

Near total transmission of 30 fs laser pulses through 0.1μm plastic foil targets has been observed for the first time at an intensity of 3 × 10¹⁸W/cm² in absence of precursor plasma. This level of transmittivity is far above the level predicted by current theoretical models or numerical simulations. The transmittivity was found to drop by 40 times at an intensity of 4 × 10¹⁷W/cm² and was within the experimental background level at 5 × 10¹⁶W/cm². Our measurements strongly suggest a new mechanism of propagation of electromagnetic waves through overdense plasmas.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3194-3197
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	79
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3194
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1997

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