Boosted high harmonics pulse from a double-sided relativistic mirror
Plasma Physics
2009-04-01 v3 Classical Physics
Optics
Abstract
An ultra-bright high-intensity X- and gamma-radiation source is proposed. A high-density thin plasma slab, accelerating in the radiation pressure dominant regime by a co-propagating ultra-intense electromagnetic wave, reflects a counter-propagating relativistically strong electromagnetic wave, producing strongly time-compressed and intensified radiation due to the double Doppler effect. The reflected light contains relativistic harmonics generated at the plasma slab, all upshifted with the same factor as the fundamental mode of the incident light.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0902.0860,
title = {Boosted high harmonics pulse from a double-sided relativistic mirror},
author = {T. Zh. Esirkepov and S. V. Bulanov and M. Kando and A. S. Pirozhkov and A. G. Zhidkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0860},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett