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Accurate model for the ultra-relativistic interactions between laser beams and electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2020

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Alexandru Popa*
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National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laser Department, Bucharest077125, Romania
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Author for correspondence: A. Popa, National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laser Department, Bucharest 077125, Romania. E-mail: ampopa@rdslink.ro
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Abstract

We present an accurate approach of the basic ultra-relativistic effects which occur at the interactions between laser beams and electrons and correspond to laser beam intensities greater than 1020 W/cm2. These effects are the generation of extremely bright pulses and the existence of a very large frequency spectrum of the radiation generated by this interaction, containing relative intense harmonics of orders higher than 800. Our results are in good agreement with the experimental results published in the literature.

Keywords

Electronslaser beamsrelativistic electrodynamicsultra-relativistic regime
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 259 - 268
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Alexandru Popa is recently retired, but he is still working for modeling of the physical systems.

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