Hydrodynamics of Plasma Interaction with an Intense Laser Field**The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Climbing-Up Project of China

Abstract

A set of moment relations, which can describe the charged fluids response to an intense pump laser, and a linearization substitution relation, which is more appropriate as compared with the past treatment, are given by theoretical analyses. The relevant equations of state (adiabatic and isothermal), momentum and energy equations are derived self-consistently.The dispersion relations of the electron plasma wave and the ion acoustic wave driven by an intense pump laser field are-obtained. The results show that the frequencies of both the excited electron plasma wave and the excited ion acoustic wave have a great modification in the case of strong pump. The former bears out the theoretical result obtained from Vlasov equation and the later is consistent with experimental observations. It is proved that the zero-frequency component of the laser light wave contribution to the plasma pressure tensor is un-neglected,which implies a greatly change to the wave excitation properties, particularly in the direction of parallel or approximately parallel to the laser field vector.