TY - JOUR
T1 - The inverse Faraday effect in plasmas produced by circularly polarized laser light in the range of intensities 109-1014 W/cm2
AU - Horovitz, Y.
AU - Eliezer, S.
AU - Henis, Z.
AU - Paiss, Y.
AU - Moshe, E.
AU - Ludmirsky, A.
AU - Werdiger, M.
AU - Arad, B.
AU - Zigler, A.
PY - 1998/9/14
Y1 - 1998/9/14
N2 - Measurements of the axial magnetic field produced during the interaction of circularly polarized laser light with plasma are reported. The experiments were performed with a circularly polarized Nd:YAG laser, with a wavelength of 1.06 μm and a pulse duration of 7 ns, in a range of irradiances from 109 to 1014 W/cm2. Axial magnetic fields from 500 G up to 2.17 MG were measured. Up to 5 × 1013 W/cm2 the results are in agreement with a nonlinear model of the inverse Faraday effect dominated by the ponderomotive force.
AB - Measurements of the axial magnetic field produced during the interaction of circularly polarized laser light with plasma are reported. The experiments were performed with a circularly polarized Nd:YAG laser, with a wavelength of 1.06 μm and a pulse duration of 7 ns, in a range of irradiances from 109 to 1014 W/cm2. Axial magnetic fields from 500 G up to 2.17 MG were measured. Up to 5 × 1013 W/cm2 the results are in agreement with a nonlinear model of the inverse Faraday effect dominated by the ponderomotive force.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00487-3
DO - 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00487-3
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AN - SCOPUS:0043047191
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 246
SP - 329
EP - 334
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
IS - 3-4
ER -