Acceleration of ultra-thin electron layer. Analytical treatment compared with 1D-PIC simulation
Plasma Physics
2009-11-13 v1 Optics
Abstract
In this paper, we apply an analytical model [V.V. Kulagin et al., Phys. Plasmas 14,113101 (2007)] to describe the acceleration of an ultra-thin electron layer by a schematic single-cycle laser pulse and compare with one-dimensional particle-in-cell (1D-PIC) simulations. This is in the context of creating a relativistic mirror for coherent backscattering and supplements two related papers in this EPJD volume. The model is shown to reproduce the 1D-PIC results almost quantitatively for the short time of a few laser periods sufficient for the backscattering of ultra-short probe pulses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.0700,
title = {Acceleration of ultra-thin electron layer. Analytical treatment compared with 1D-PIC simulation},
author = {Meng Wen and Hui-Chun Wu and Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn and Baifei Shen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0700},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the special issue "Fundamental Physics with Ultra-High Fields" in The European Physical Journal D