Long Lifetime Ultracold Plasma Produced by a Nanosecond Laser in a Supersonic Nitric Oxide Molecular Beam Environment

LIU Jinbo(刘金波); LU Ronghua(陆荣华); GUO Li(郭丽); JIN Yuqi(金玉奇); GUO Jingwei(郭敬为)

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LIU Jinbo(刘金波), LU Ronghua(陆荣华), GUO Li(郭丽), JIN Yuqi(金玉奇), GUO Jingwei(郭敬为). Long Lifetime Ultracold Plasma Produced by a Nanosecond Laser in a Supersonic Nitric Oxide Molecular Beam Environment[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2014, 16(4): 305-310. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/4/01

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Long Lifetime Ultracold Plasma Produced by a Nanosecond Laser in a Supersonic Nitric Oxide Molecular Beam Environment

1 Key Laboratory of Chemical Lasers, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China 2 Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics and Centre for Cold Atom Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

Funds: supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21043010) and the Research Foundation of the Key Laboratory of Chemical Lasers of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (No. KLCL-2011-N4)

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Received Date: December 26, 2012

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Ultracold plasma provides a possible route to approach the strongly-coupled regime under laboratory conditions. Normally, the lifetime of ultracold plasma is very limited due to plasma heating and expansion mechanisms. We present a new method to generate long lifetime ultracold plasmas consisting mainly of cations and anions. This plasma demonstrates a capability of traversing a DC barrier of up to 5 (or −3) V. The lifetime of this plasma is expected to be more than 250 µs. Finally, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is used to explain how anions slow the expansion rate and prolong the lifetime of this plasma.
- ultracold plasma,
- nitric oxide,
- long lifetime

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