The optical properties of shock-compressed partially ionized strongly non-ideal plasma

Optical experimental data for non-ideal plasma are very important for validating theoretical models and fitting them to actually observed constraints. Within this work, new data on oblique incidence of polarized electromagnetic wave are presented. The study of polarized reflectivity properties of nonideal xenon plasma was accomplished using laser light at wavelength lambda(las) = 1064 nm and plasma density rho = 1.8 g/cm(3). Angular dependences of s- and p-polarized reflectivities were used in the integration of Maxwell equations to construct the spatial profile of the density of charge carriers of explosively driven dense plasmas.