scholarly journals Bifurcating energy-angular spectrum of electrons accelerated by intense laser pulse

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Lin ◽  
Y.K. HO ◽  
Q. Kong ◽  
Z. Chen ◽  
P.X. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Angular Correlation ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
Angular Spectrum ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Bifurcation Phenomenon ◽  
Correlation Spectrum ◽  
Laser Acceleration ◽  
Ponderomotive Potential ◽  
Theoretical Results

Bifurcation phenomenon in the energy-angular correlation spectrum of the vacuum laser acceleration has been observed with computer simulation. Concerning a focused laser pulse, the classical single-valued energy-angular correlation spectrum for a plane wave is, besides broadened to a band, bifurcated with the classical value in between the two branches. Analytic expression to describe the correlation has been derived and physical explanations based on the ponderomotive potential model and Lorentz-Newton force analyses are presented. The theoretical results are supported by numerical simulations which have been compared with the experimental results. This study is helpful in designing vacuum laser acceleration experiments.

Reduction of the Coherence Time of an Intense Laser Pulse Propagating through a Plasma

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fuchs ◽  
C. Labaune ◽  
H. Bandulet ◽  
P. Michel ◽  
S. Depierreux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Coherence Time ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse

scholarly journals Electron energy spectrum produced by stochastic acceleration in the laser–plasma interaction

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Khalilzadeh ◽  
A. Chakhmachi ◽  
J. Yazdanpanah
Keyword(s):  
Energy Spectrum ◽  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Rise Time ◽  
Wave Breaking ◽  
Boundary Effect ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Stochastic Acceleration ◽  
Direct Laser ◽  
Short Rise Time

AbstractIn this paper, the electrons energy spectrum produced by stochastic acceleration in the interaction of an intense laser pulse with the underdense plasma is described by employing the fully kinetic 1D-3 V particle-in-cell simulation. In this way, two finite laser pulses with the same length 200 fs and with two different rise times 30 and 60 fs are typically selected. It is shown that the maximum energy of electrons in the laser pulse with the short rise time (30 fs) is about eight times greater than the maximum energy of the electrons with the long rise time (60 fs). Furthermore, unlike the pulse with the short rise time, the shape of energy spectrum and the electrons temperature in the long rise time laser pulse are approximately unchanged over the time. These results originated from the fact that in the case of long rise time laser pulse, all electrons are accelerated by the one chaotic mechanism because of the scattered fields generated in the plasma, but in the case of short rise time laser pulse, three different mechanisms accelerate the electrons: first, the stochastic acceleration because of the nonlinear wave breaking via plasma-vacuum boundary effect; second, the stochastic acceleration initiated by the wave breaking; and third, the direct laser acceleration of the released electrons.

scholarly journals Focusing of intense laser pulse by a hollow cone

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yu ◽  
Lihua Cao ◽  
M.Y. Yu ◽  
A.L. Lei ◽  
Z.M. Sheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Plasma Boundary ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Hollow Cone ◽  
Conical Channel ◽  
Boundary Plasma

AbstractIt is shown that an intense laser pulse can be focused by a conical channel. This anomalous light focusing can be attributed to a hitherto ignored effect in nonlinear optics, namely that the boundary response depends on the light intensity: the inner cone surface is ionized and the laser pulse is in turn modified by the resulting boundary plasma. The interaction creates a new self-consistently evolving light-plasma boundary, which greatly reduces reflection and enhances forward propagation of the light pulse. The hollow cone can thus be used for attaining extremely high light intensities for applications in strong-field and high energy-density physics and other areas.

scholarly journals Post-transient relaxation in graphene after an intense laser pulse

2013 ◽  
Vol 222 (5) ◽  
pp. 1263-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zhang ◽  
T. Li ◽  
J. Wang ◽  
J. Schmalian
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Transient Relaxation

Characterization of ultra-intense laser in radiation damping regime using ponderomotive scattering

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amol Holkundkar ◽  
Felix Mackenroth
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Electron Bunch ◽  
Input Parameter ◽  
Radiation Reaction ◽  
Quantitative Agreement ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Scattered Electron ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Particle Simulations

Abstract We present a novel approach to analyzing phase-space distributions of electrons ponderomotively scattered off an ultra-intense laser pulse and comment on implications for thus conceivable in-situ laser-characterization schemes. To this end, we present fully relativistic test particle simulations of electrons scattered from an ultra-intense, counter-propagating laser pulse. The simulations unveil non-trivial scalings of the scattered electron distribution with the laser intensity, pulse duration, beam waist, and energy of the electron bunch. We quantify the found scalings by means of an analytical expression for the scattering angle of an electron bunch ponderomotively scattered from a counter-propagating, ultra-intense laser pulse, also accounting for radiation reaction (RR) through the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) model. For various laser and bunch parameters, the derived formula is in excellent quantitative agreement with the simulations. We also demonstrate how in the radiation-dominated regime a simple re-scaling of our model's input parameter yields quantitative agreement with numerical simulations based on the LL model.

scholarly journals 2D characterization of the pressure generated by an intense laser pulse on an aluminum target

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertrand Aubert ◽  
David Hebert ◽  
Jean-Luc Rullier ◽  
Emilien Lescoute ◽  
Laurent Videau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Intense Laser ◽  
Intense Laser Pulse ◽  
Aluminum Target
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