Large-amplitude plasma waves and 2ωp emission driven by laser-generated electron jets in overdense plasma layers

Resonantly laser-driven plasma waves for electron acceleration.

Coupling between electron plasma waves in laser–plasma interactions*

ALagrangian fluid model ~cold plasma, fixed ions! is developed for analyzing the coupling between electron plasma waves. This model shows that a small wave number electron plasma wave (v2 ,k2) will strongly affect a large wave number electron plasma wave (v1 ,k1), transferring its energy into daughter waves or sidebands at (v11nv2 ,k11nk2) in the lab frame. The accuracy of the model is checked ...

Electron Acceleration in Relativistic Plasma Waves Generated by a Single Frequency Short-Pulse Laser

Experimental evidence for the acceleration of electrons in a relativistic plasma wave generated by Raman forward scattering (SRS-F) of a single-frequency short pulse laser are presented. A 1.053 pm, 600 fsec, 5 TW laser was focused into a gas jet with a peak intensity of 8x1017 W/cm2. At a plasma density of 2x1019 2 MeV electrons were detected and their appearance was correlated with the anti-S...

Nonlinear plasma waves resonantly driven by optimized laser pulse trains.

Laser-driven plasma-wave electron accelerators