Theory of Hot-Electron Spectra at High Laser Intensity
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (5) , 284-288
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.284
Abstract
A simple model involving resonant absorption in a self-consistent sharp density gradient is found to be in quantitative agreement with the suprathermal-electron spectrum from recent laser-plasma-interaction experiments and to explain qualitatively the scaling of that suprathermal-electron spectrum with laser power and wavelength.Keywords
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