Electron cavitation and acceleration in the wake of an ultraintense, self-focused laser pulse
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 53 (3) , R2068-R2071
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.53.r2068
Abstract
A particle code is used to calculate the plasma response to the relativistic ponderomotive force of a short intense laser pulse propagating in a tenuous plasma. The regime of total cavitation of the plasma is investigated. It is found that stable propagation over a long distance is possible in this regime, and the energetic electrons are produced with a simple characteristic dependence of their angle of deflection on energy.Keywords
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