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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5053636
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11675107]
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The energy of an intense ultrashort laser pulse interacting with high density (still under dense) plasma is typically transformed into electron heating and in excitation of nonlinear coherent structures such as magnetic vortices, solitons, or post-solitons. Using 33 TW 30 fs laser pulses and a high-density nitrogen gas jet, we experimentally investigated magnetic vortices in the laser pulse collapse region where electrons are efficiently accelerated and heated. Those vortices, which are associated with rapidly decaying magnetic fields, are found to be immobile and persist for several picoseconds. A collisionless plasma was formed due to the quasi-static field ionization of the gas associated with the hot and fast electron currents. The evolution dynamics of such nonlinear plasma phenomena have been monitored by using a 30-fs probe laser beam through employing the polarimetric and shadowgraphic techniques. Our experimental results are also supported by particle-in-cell simulations. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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