Acceleration of ultra-thin electron layer. Analytical treatment compared with 1D-PIC simulation

2008/12/03 by M. Wen, Meng Wen, H.-C. Wu +5 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #physics.optics #physics.plasm-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjd/e2009-00083-y

4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the special issue "Fundamental Physics with Ultra-High Fields" in The European Physical Journal D

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Abstract

In this paper, we apply an analytical model [V.V. Kulagin et al., Phys. Plasmas 14,113101 (2007)] to describe the acceleration of an ultra-thin electron layer by a schematic single-cycle laser pulse and compare with one-dimensional particle-in-cell (1D-PIC) simulations. This is in the context of creating a relativistic mirror for coherent backscattering and supplements two related papers in this EPJD volume. The model is shown to reproduce the 1D-PIC results almost quantitatively for the short time of a few laser periods sufficient for the backscattering of ultra-short probe pulses.

Citations

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