Anticorrelated emission of high-harmonics and fast electron beams from plasma mirrors
Plasma Physics
2018-02-02 v1
Abstract
We report for the first time on the anticorrelated emission of high-order harmonics and energetic electron beams from a solid-density plasma with a sharp vacuum interfaceplasma mirrordriven by an intense ultrashort laser pulse. We highlight the key role played by the nanoscale structure of the plasma surface during the interaction by measuring the spatial and spectral properties of harmonics and electron beams emitted by a plasma mirror. We show that the nanoscale behavior of the plasma mirror can be controlled by tuning the scale length of the electronic density gradient, which is measured in-situ using spatial-domain interferometry.
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@article{arxiv.1802.00241,
title = {Anticorrelated emission of high-harmonics and fast electron beams from plasma mirrors},
author = {Maïmouna Bocoum and Maxence Thévenet and Frederik Böhle and Benoît Beaurepaire and Aline Vernier and Aurélie Jullien and Jérôme Faure and Rodrigo Lopez-Martens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00241},
year = {2018}
}