Long-Scale Jet Formation with Specularly Reflected Light in Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions
- 24 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (4) , 674-677
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.674
Abstract
Long-scale jetlike x-ray emission was observed in a 100-TW laser-plasma interaction. The jet was well collimated with a divergence of 30–40 mrad and continued from the target surface into underdense regions for a distance over 4 mm in the specular direction of the laser light. A two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation shows an electron acceleration with the specularly reflected laser light and collimation of the electron stream by a self-generated magnetic field, resulting in the electron jet to the direction of the specularly reflected light.Keywords
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