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Single-shot optical conductivity measurement of dense aluminum plasmas
I V Churina1, B-I Cho, A Bernstein
1Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Abstract:
The optical conductivity of a dense femtosecond laser-heated aluminum plasma heated to 0.1-1.5 eV was measured using frequency-domain interferometry with chirped pulses, permitting simultaneous observation of optical probe reflectivity and probe pulse phase shift. Coupled with published models of bound-electron contributions to the conductivity, these two independent experimental data yielded a direct measurement of both real and imaginary components of the plasma conductivity.

