Effects of Soft-Core Potentials and Coulombic Potentials on Bremsstrahlung Radiation during Laser Matter Interaction

An intense, short laser pulse incident on rare-gas clusters can produce nano-plasmas containing energetic electrons. As these electrons undergo scattering, both from phonons and ions, they emit bremsstrahlung radiation. Here we compare a theory of Bremsstrahlung emission appropriate for the interaction of intense lasers with matter using soft-core potentials and coulombic potential. A new scaling for the radiation cross-section and Emissivity via bremsstrahlung are derived for soft-core potential which depends on the potential depth, used to avoid coulomb singularity and for coulombic potential and implemented in a particle in cell code (PICLS). The radiation cross-section and emissivity via bremsstrahlung is found to increase rapidly with increases in potential depth up to 100 eV and then becomes mostly saturated for larger depths of a soft-core potential. For both cases, the radiation cross-section and emissivity of Bremsstrahlung increases with increases in laser wavelength. The bremsstrahlung emission may provide a broadband light source for diagnostics.