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Thomson Scattering And Ponderomotive Intermodulation Within Standing Laser Beat Waves In Plasma, Scott Sepke, Y.Y. Lau, James Paul Holloway, Donald P. Umstadter
Thomson Scattering And Ponderomotive Intermodulation Within Standing Laser Beat Waves In Plasma, Scott Sepke, Y.Y. Lau, James Paul Holloway, Donald P. Umstadter
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Electrons in a standing electromagnetic wave—an optical lattice—tend to oscillate due to the quiver and ponderomotive potentials. For sufficiently intense laser fields (lλ2≤5×1017 W cm-2 µm2) and in plasmas with sufficiently low electron densities (n≤1018 cm-3), these oscillations can occur faster than the plasma can respond. This paper shows that these oscillations result in Thomson scattering of light at both the laser and ponderomotive bounce frequencies and their harmonics as well as at mixtures of these frequencies. We term this mixing ponderomotive intermodulation. Here, the case of counterpropagating …
Optical Deflection And Temporal Characterization Of An Ultrafast Laser-Produced Electron Beam, Sudeep Banerjee, Scott Sepke, Rahul Shah, Anthony Valenzuela, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Donald P. Umstadter
Optical Deflection And Temporal Characterization Of An Ultrafast Laser-Produced Electron Beam, Sudeep Banerjee, Scott Sepke, Rahul Shah, Anthony Valenzuela, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Donald P. Umstadter
Donald Umstadter Publications
The interaction of a laser-produced electron beam with an ultraintense laser pulse in free space is studied. We show that the optical pulse with a0=0.5 imparts momentum to the electron beam, causing it to deflect along the laser propagation direction. The observed 3-degree angular deflection is found to be independent of polarization and in good agreement with a theoretical model for the interaction of free electrons with a tightly focused Gaussian pulse, but only when longitudinal fields are taken into account. This technique is used to temporally characterize a subpicosecond laser-wakefield-driven electron bunch. Applications to electron-beam conditioning are …
Laser Based Synchrotron Radiation, Kim Ta Phuoc, Frederic Burgy, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Victor Malka, Antoine Rousse, Rahul Shah, Donald P. Umstadter, Alexander Puhkov, Sergei Kiselev
Laser Based Synchrotron Radiation, Kim Ta Phuoc, Frederic Burgy, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Victor Malka, Antoine Rousse, Rahul Shah, Donald P. Umstadter, Alexander Puhkov, Sergei Kiselev
Donald Umstadter Publications
Beams of x rays in the kiloelectronvolt energy range have been produced from laser-matter interaction. Here, energetic electrons are accelerated by a laser wakefield, and experience betatron oscillations in an ion channel formed in the wake of the intense femtosecond laser pulse. Experiments using a 50 TW laser (30 fs duration) are described, as well as comparisons with numerical simulations. These results pave the way of a new generation of radiation in the x-ray spectral range, with a high collimation and an ultrafast pulse duration, produced by the use of compact laser system.
Einstein’S Impact On Optics At The Frontier, Donald Umstadter
Einstein’S Impact On Optics At The Frontier, Donald Umstadter
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The seminal contributions made by Einstein a century ago have enabled a new frontier area of science, called high-field science. This research involves the physics of the interactions of matter with electromagnetic fields at its highest levels ever achieved in the laboratory. Besides being of fundamental importance to physics research, the discoveries being made in this area are also leading to a new generation of compact and ultrashort-duration particle accelerators and X-ray light sources, with applications ranging from nuclear fusion to cancer therapy.