Optimal laser heating of plasmas with constant density
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Abstract
The laser heating of a plasma with constant density is analyzed using optimal control theory. Heating strategies that minimize the total energy spent, the heating time, or a linear combination of the two, for several values of weighting coefficients, are obtained by determining the optimal laser intensity associated with each point of the phase plane. A numerical example is used to illustrate the application of the theory. In this particular example, savings in the energy spent up to 75%, compared with the energy required using a constant laser pulse, are obtained when minimum energy trajectories are implemented. Strategies that minimize the heating time, however, did not yield a significant reduction in the heating time. Numerical results may depend strongly on the initial state of the system as well as on the final ion temperature of the plasma.
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Optimal control theory plasmas laser heating singular controlsPreview
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