Electron acceleration by a short relativistic laser pulse at the front of solid targets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 570-573

  Yu, Wei ^a,b   Bychenkov, V ^a,e   Sentoku, Y ^c   Yu, M Y ^d   Sheng, Z M ^a   Mima, K ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SOLITONS;

GAUSSIAN LASER PULSES; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION; STANDING WAVES;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 0034227510     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.570     Document Type: Article

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