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Plasmas may be used as gain media for amplifying intense lasers, and external magnetic fields may be applied to improve the performance. For mid-infrared lasers, the requisite magnetic field is on megagauss scale, which can already be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Yuan Shi , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The future applications of the short-duration, multi-MeV ion beams produced in the interaction of high-intensity laser pulses with solid targets will require improvements in the conversion efficiency, peak ion energy, beam monochromaticity,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tatiana Liseykina , Marco Borghesi , Andrea Macchi , Sara Tuveri

Numerical simulations of laser-plasma interactions demonstrate the generation of axially polarized electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that radiate away energy with a characteristic frequency determined by the plasma frequency, in the THz range…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Kathryn A. Wolfinger , Gregory R. Werner , John R. Cary

An Electromagnetic (EM) pulse falling on a plasma medium from vacuum can either reflect or propagate inside the plasma depending on whether it is overdense or underdense. In a magnetised plasma, however, there are usually several pass and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Amita Das

Polarimetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) represents one of the possible diagnostics aimed at testing large-scale magnetism at the epoch of the photon decoupling. The propagation of electromagnetic disturbances in a magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Massimo Giovannini , Kerstin E. Kunze

Emission process of a charged particle propagating in a medium with a curved magnetic field is considered. This mechanism combines features of conventional Cherenkov and curvature emission. Thus, presence of a medium with the index of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 George Machabeli , Nino Chkheidze

Propagation of right-hand circularly polarized laser into highly magnetized over-dense collisional plasma is analytically studied from basic equations. Highly magnetized plasma with density of 10^23 cm^-3 is efficiently heated from 100 eV…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Kun Li , Wei Yu

Interaction of an ultrastrong short laser pulse with non-prepolarized near-critical density plasma is investigated in an ultrarelativistic regime, with an emphasis on the radiative spin polarization of ejected electrons. Our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

A novel method is presented for generating radiation using the beat wave associated with a bi-frequency laser pulse, to excite plasma oscillations in a plasma slab with a density gradient. By resonantly exciting a plasma wave, it can be…

Plasma is an attractive medium for generating strong microscopic magnetic structures and tunable electromagnetic radiation with predictable topologies due to its extraordinary ability to sustain and manipulate high currents and strong…

The ability to spatially separate the electric and magnetic fields of a light beam enables the inspection of laser-matter interactions driven solely by optical magnetic fields. However, magnetic field excitations are commonly orders of…

A laser-boosted relativistic solid-density paraboloidal foil is known to efficiently reflect and focus a counterpropagating laser pulse. Here we show that in the case of an ultrarelativistic counterpropagating pulse, a high-energy and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 M. Tamburini , A. Di Piazza , T. V. Liseykina , C. H. Keitel

A method to generate ultrahigh intense electromagnetic fields is suggested, based on the laser pulse compression, carrier frequency upshift and focusing by a counter-propagating breaking plasma wave, relativistic flying parabolic mirror.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Esirkepov , Toshiki Tajima

Hot plasma is highly conductive in the direction parallel to a magnetic field. This often means that the electrical potential will be nearly constant along any given field line. When this is the case, the cross-field voltage drops in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 E. J. Kolmes , I. E. Ochs , J. -M. Rax , N. J. Fisch

The scattering and transformation of the waves propagating in magnetized plasma on a heavy stationary charged particle located at a plane plasma-vacuum boundary is considered. The scattering (transformation) occurs due to the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hrachya B. Nersisyan

We study the propagation effects of radio waves in a pulsar magnetosphere, composed of relativistic electron-positron pair plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We critically examine the various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Chen Wang , Dong Lai , JinLin Han

We have investigated the polarization of attosecond light bursts generated by nanobunches of electrons from relativistic few-cycle laser pulse interaction with the surface of overdense plasmas. Particle-in-cell simulation shows that the…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-27 Guangjin Ma , Wei Yu , M. Y. Yu , Baifei Shen , Laszlo Veisz

Ultra-short high-power lasers can deliver extreme light intensities ($\ge 10^{20}$ W/cm$^2$ and $\leq 30 f$s) and drive large amplitude Surface Plasma Wave (SPW) at over-dense plasma surface. The resulting current of energetic electron has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 S. Marini , P. S. Kleij , F. Amiranoff , M. Grech , C. Riconda , M. Raynaud

In this article, we concentrate on the basic physics of relativistic plasma wave accelerators. The generation of relativistic plasma waves by intense lasers or electron beams in low-density plasmas is important in the quest for producing…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 R. Bingham , R. Trines

A dispersion relation for electromagnetic wave propagation in a strongly magnetized cold plasma is deduced, taking photon-photon scattering into account. It is shown that the combined plasma and quantum electrodynamic effect is important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin M. Marklund , L. Stenflo , P. K. Shukla