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Plasma and Beam Physics

2020

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Characterization Of A Plasma Source Simulating Solar Wind Plasma In A Vacuum Chamber, Blake Anthony Folta Jan 2020

Characterization Of A Plasma Source Simulating Solar Wind Plasma In A Vacuum Chamber, Blake Anthony Folta

Masters Theses

"The United States has set an aggressive time line to not only return to the Moon, but also to establish a sustained human presence. In the Apollo missions dust was a significant factor, but the duration of those missions was short so dust and surface charging were problems, but they did not pose an immediate threat. For a long-term mission, these problems instead become incredibly detrimental. Because of this, research needs to be conducted to investigate these phenomena so that mitigation techniques can be developed and tested. To this end, this thesis serves to demonstrate the Gas and Plasma Dynamics …


Attosecond-Pulse Metrology Based On High-Order Harmonic Generation, T. S. Sarantseva, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Silaev, A. A. Romanov, N. V. Vvedenskii, Anthony F. Starace Jan 2020

Attosecond-Pulse Metrology Based On High-Order Harmonic Generation, T. S. Sarantseva, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Silaev, A. A. Romanov, N. V. Vvedenskii, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

An all-optical method to retrieve the temporal intensity profile of an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond pulse is proposed based on XUV-assisted high-order harmonic generation (HHG) by an intense infrared (IR) pulse. For a harmonic located on the XUV-induced high-energy plateau (beyond the IR HHG plateau), the measured harmonic yield as a function of the time delay between the XUV and IR pulses is shown to accurately map the temporal intensity profile of the XUV pulse. Single-color and two-color orthogonal, linearly polarized IR pulses are used to demonstrate the method.


Minimizing The Duration Of Isolated Attosecond Pulses, Dian Peng, Anthony F. Starace, Hua-Chieh Shao, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap Jan 2020

Minimizing The Duration Of Isolated Attosecond Pulses, Dian Peng, Anthony F. Starace, Hua-Chieh Shao, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap

Anthony F. Starace Publications

We investigate theoretically how the duration of an isolated attosecond pulse (IAP) can be minimized by carefully selecting frequencies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) spectra produced by ultrashort driving laser pulses. Based on numerical calculations of HHG by solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for a single H atom, we provide three strategies for generating shorter IAPs. First, when the high-frequency region of an HHG plateau is selected one should use frequencies below the cutoff. Second, for a wide HHG plateau the low-frequency region can produce shorter IAPs than the high-frequency region. Third, we propose a method of producing IAPs with …


Origin Of The Multiphoton-Regime Harmonic-Generation Plateau Structure, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap, Anthony F. Starace Jan 2020

Origin Of The Multiphoton-Regime Harmonic-Generation Plateau Structure, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

A physical interpretation is provided for the formation of the multiphoton-regime plateau feature in the spectra of nonlinear and correlated process of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of two-active-electron atoms interacting with an intense linearly polarized laser field [Phys. Rev. A 88, 053412 (2013) for beryllium]. While in the strong-field tunneling regime the plateau feature is well known to be due to rescattering effects of the freed electron, its counterpart in the multiphoton regime is due to atomic resonance effects involving both singly excited states and doubly excited states. Here, we propose a strategy to uncover which kind of these states …


Control Of Charged Particle Dynamics And Electron Power Absorption Dynamics Utilizing Voltage Waveform Tailoring In Capacitively Driven Radio-Frequency Plasmas, Steven W. Brandt Jan 2020

Control Of Charged Particle Dynamics And Electron Power Absorption Dynamics Utilizing Voltage Waveform Tailoring In Capacitively Driven Radio-Frequency Plasmas, Steven W. Brandt

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

In this work, experimental measurements and analysis of numerical simulations are performed for capacitively coupled plasmas driven by tailored voltage waveforms under conditions which examine complicating factors present in industrial processes, including the influence of resonance effects, electronegative gases or gas mixtures, and plasma-surface interactions at a changing plasma-surface interface. Furthermore, the influence of different tailored voltage waveforms on the spatio-temporal electron power absorption, the generation of a DC self-bias, and on process relevant plasma parameters like ion energy distribution functions is investigated to provide a more complete understanding of the underlying fundamental plasma physics responsible for sustaining the discharge. …


Interpretations Of Bicoherence In Space & Lab Plasma Dynamics, Gregory Allen Riggs Jan 2020

Interpretations Of Bicoherence In Space & Lab Plasma Dynamics, Gregory Allen Riggs

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

The application of bicoherence analysis to plasma research, particularly in non-linear, coupled-wave regimes, has thus far been significantly belied by poor resolution in time, and/or outright destruction of frequency information. Though the typical power spectrum cloaks the phase-coherency between frequencies, Fourier transforms of higher-order convolutions provide an n-dimensional spectrum which is adept at elucidating n-wave phase coherence. As such, this investigation focuses on the utility of the normalized bispectrum for detection of wave-wave coupling in general, with emphasis on distinct implications within the scope of non-linear plasma physics. Interpretations of bicoherent features are given for time series from …