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Acceleration of electrons and electromagnetic fields of highly intense laser pulses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2010

Stefanie Lourenco ,
Nicolas Kowarsch ,
Werner Scheid  and
P.X. Wang
Stefanie Lourenco
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany
Nicolas Kowarsch
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany
Werner Scheid*
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany
P.X. Wang
Affiliation:
Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Werner Scheid, Institut für Theoretische Physik der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, 35392 Giessen, Giessen, Germany. E-mail: Werner.scheid@theo.physik.uni-giessen.de
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Abstract

The acceleration of electrons by very intense lasers in vacuum is studied for different forms of laser pulses: finite plane and three-dimensional laser pulses. The latter case is treated by introducing an approximation of the laser frequency as a function of the Cartesian components of the wave number. Various examples which lead to high accelerations of electrons are given.

Keywords

Acceleration of electrons in vacuumElectromagnetic fields of laser pulsesFinite three-dimensional laser pulses
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 195 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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