The inverse Faraday effect in plasmas produced by circularly polarized laser light in the range of intensities 109-1014 W/cm2

Y. Horovitz*, S. Eliezer, Z. Henis, Y. Paiss, E. Moshe, A. Ludmirsky, M. Werdiger, B. Arad, A. Zigler

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)329-334
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume246
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Sep 1998

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