Motion and acceleration of electrons in high-intensity laser standing waves

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/1/013403

Abstract The motion and the energy of electrons driven by the ponderomotive force in linearly polarized high-intensity laser standing wave fields are considered. The results show that there exists a threshold laser intensity, above which the motion of electrons incident parallel to the electric field of the laser standing waves undergoes a transition from regulation to chaos. We propose that the huge energy exchange between the electrons and the strong laser standing waves is triggered by inelastic scattering, which is related to the chaos patterns. It is shown that an electron's energy gain of tens of MeV can be realized for a laser intensity of 10²⁰ W/cm².

Keywords: electron motion inelastic scattering laser standing wave energy exchange

Received: 25 April 2011
Revised: 03 June 2011
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PACS:	34.80.Qb	(Laser-modified scattering)
	41.75.Jv	(Laser-driven acceleration?)
	42.50.Wk	(Mechanical effects of light on material media, microstructures and particles)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10775165 and 11104168), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Grant No. ZR2009AQ009), and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011C

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Zhang Qiu-Ju(张秋菊), Yu Wei(余玮), Luan Shi-Xia(栾仕霞), and Ma Guang-Jin(马光金) Motion and acceleration of electrons in high-intensity laser standing waves 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 013403

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