【摘要】 在相对论激光强度下,对p偏振30fs激光与固体Cu靶相互作用中产生的Kα射线进行了实验研究.采用刀边成像技术和单光子计数X射线CCD相结合的探测装置,在单发激光脉冲打靶时同时得到X射线源的尺寸、能谱以及Kα光子的转换效率等多种信息.实验结果与Reich等人的理论计算结果有明显的差异,Kα光子的能量转换效率在激光功率密度为1·6×1018W/cm2的条件下达到最大值7·08×10-6/sr.根据这一结果并结合蒙特卡罗程序,推断出在这一聚焦光强下激光能量转换为前向超热电子的效率约为10%.更多还原

【Abstract】 The characteristics of Kα X-ray sources generated by p-polarized femtosecond laser-solid interactions are experimentally studied in the relativistic regime. By use of knife-edge image technique and a single-photon-counting X-ray CCD camera, we obtaine the source size, the spectrum and the conversion efficiency of the Kα X-ray sources. The experimental results show that the conversion efficiency of Kα photons reaches an optimum value of 7.08×10~ -6 /sr at the laser intensity of 1.6×10~ 18 W/cm~2, which is different from the Reich’s simulation results (Reich et al., 2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 4846). We find that about 10% of laser energy is converted into the forward hot electrons at the laser intensity of 1.6×10~ 18 W/cm~2.更多还原