Electron self-injection during interaction of tightly focused few-cycle laser pulses with underdense plasma

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Zhidkov, Alexei ^a   Fujii, Takashi ^a   Nemoto, Koshichi ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ATOMS; BLOWOUTS; ELECTRONS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LASER BEAMS; LASER FUSION; LASER PULSES; LASERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLASMA STABILITY; PLASMAS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAKES;

3-PULSE; ACCELERATED ELECTRONS; COHERENT HARD X RAYS; COHERENT X RAYS; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ELECTRON CHARGING; ELECTRON SELF-INJECTION; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSES; INJECTED ELECTRONS; LASER FOCUSING; LASER WAKE FIELD; LOW ENERGIES; MEV ELECTRONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; SHORT LASER PULSES; TRANSVERSE WAVES; UNDERDENSE PLASMAS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 52649138946     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.036406     Document Type: Article

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